00:00In 1997, when the Kyoto negotiations were on, the U.S. lobbied hard to exclude the military emissions from the
00:13account of total national emissions.
00:15And since that day, the world has decided, in a fit of collective amnesia, to look the other way.
00:30So we account for everything, except the elephant in the room, which is military emissions.
00:46It says if the world's militaries combined were a country, it would be the fourth largest emitter.
00:55The world's populations are given an egoic pill that helps them forget or ignore how much the war machines are
01:11emitting.
01:13And you know, the war machines are emitting not only in wartime, what you call as peacetime, what you call
01:22as the normal maintenance operations of the global militaries.
01:28In fact, the global corpus that is needed to offset the effects of climate change for the developing countries, for
01:48the most vulnerable nations among the developing ones.
01:51That is just a fraction of the amount that is needed just to keep the war machine running.
02:02But all that is never, never talked of.
02:05We just keep mentioning that we need to take care of our goals under the Paris Agreement.
02:12But funding is a problem.
02:14Is funding really a problem or is the collective ego choosing to look the other way?
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