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'Unprecedented heat': Iran begins two-day nationwide shutdown amid soaring temperatures (www.cnbc.com)

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The two-day shutdown comes at a time of record-breaking extreme heat across the globe, with July poised to be the hottest month in history.

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[-] bzxt@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

The main culprits are the big oil companies. They made the carbon footprint term to make us feel guilty and shift the blame from the biggest polluters.

[-] r3nder@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Yep! And I bet it'll turn out in a few decades that it will come out they were also behind the Doomerism we're seeing a lot of on social media these days. "Well it's too late so why try?" Is much more comfortable than "We have to sacrifice a lot of comfort, but if we all try really hard we can do it."

Weird thought, you ever think oil executives have nightmares about a global collective wanting to bring them to the guillotine?

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

They made the decisions that got us here, they have the power to turn this around, but we are to sacrifice everything while they continue to live in luxury and do nothing to help? Does this seriously seem reasonable to you?

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The main culprit is likely the US military, except that they don't allow themselves to be monitored.

[-] Dragster39@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Aren't there really any numbers on this? I'd really like to know how aircraft carriers and container ships and other vehicles compare

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's the point. There aren't any numbers because the military does not allow oversight.

Look at this shit about the Abrams Tank and consider that armor is a small part of our military

The M1 Abrams tank has a fuel economy of 0.6 miles per gallon. Variants of the Abrams tank weigh between 60 and 70 tons and are powered by a 1,500-horsepower turbine engine. An armored division of the Army can use as much as 600,000 gallons of fuel a day. A cargo vehicle like the M-1070 semi-trailer (designed to haul tanks) gets approximately 1.2 mpg. The M1 Abrams tank consumes about 60 gallons per hour while traveling long distances and can travel approximately 250-300 miles on a single gas tank.

This doesn't even take into account active devastation caused by munitions testing