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The US-Israel war on Iran is a disaster for the climate, according to an analysis that finds it is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined.

As warplanes, drones and missiles kill thousands of people, level infrastructure and turn the Middle East into a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone, the first analysis of the climate cost has found the conflict led to 5m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in its first 14 days.

The analysis, shared exclusively with the Guardian, adds another layer on to reporting of the catastrophic environmental harm being caused by attacks on fossil fuel infrastructure, military bases, civilian areas and ships at sea.

“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer,” said Patrick Bigger, a research director at the Climate and Community Institute and a co-author of the analysis.

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[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that burning a shit ton of fossil fuels in order to bomb oil and gas infrastructure would be bad for environment.

Dog I hate this world so much.

[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 points 1 month ago

These kinds of studies are made to hit cruel people saying "war is bad? source?" with facts, and to save naive people from propaganda.

[–] boomlandjenkins@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

There is no accountability with military pollution. They do more damage in a weekend than an average human can do in a lifetime...and somehow they pass the ball to us to fix the issue. We'll never catch up when literal armies are fighting with nature as collateral damage.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Middle East into a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone

Yup. How much of the region is even going to be inhabitable in 30 years?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It hasn't done the Iranians any good either.