Since 1913 was the true birth of fiat that would make sense.

I found a source that says militaries contribute an estimated 5.5% of total greenhouse gases annually. So if that’s a proxy for total pollution contribution, then they are doing more than I thought.

I don’t consider carbon pollution, but all the other toxic shit and physical waste produced by militaries has got to be absolutely massive. Now I think it could be well in excess of 1%.

So all the governments of the world could reduce carbon emissions by ≈5.5% collectively tomorrow by ceasing their war machines… interesting