That's such a weird metric. There are lots of tiny countries in the world.
They're also taking a weird scope for the study: "A study shared exclusively with the Guardian found the long-term climate cost of destroying, clearing and rebuilding Gaza could top 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e)."
Which means it's not just the war, and it's not just the stuff that has actually occurred. It's also including future stuff that hasn't happened yet.
That sentence does at least give an actual figure, 31m tonnes. A car puts out about 5 tonnes per year. So, it's equivalent to the output of 6 million cars for a year (or running your car for 6 million years) -- which is indeed quite a lot. It's easier for me to understand than comparing it to the energy production of Estonia.
Bostonian · 2d ago
Israel has said that the leaders of Hamas are allowed to leave https://www.dw.com/en/netanyahu-says-hamas-leaders-will-be-a... . If they release the remaining hostages and do that, the war could end. The U.S. inflicted horrible damage on Germany and Japan in WWII until the governments of those countries were toppled. Israel similarly has the right to defend itself by destroying Hamas.
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unearth3d · 2d ago
I doubt the oil loving 'Christian'-Zionists would support a Carbon neutral genocide.
They're also taking a weird scope for the study: "A study shared exclusively with the Guardian found the long-term climate cost of destroying, clearing and rebuilding Gaza could top 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e)."
Which means it's not just the war, and it's not just the stuff that has actually occurred. It's also including future stuff that hasn't happened yet.
That sentence does at least give an actual figure, 31m tonnes. A car puts out about 5 tonnes per year. So, it's equivalent to the output of 6 million cars for a year (or running your car for 6 million years) -- which is indeed quite a lot. It's easier for me to understand than comparing it to the energy production of Estonia.
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