Halting
War Games Reduces Greenhouse Gassing in Korea
An
unintended collateral benefit of the promise of President Trump to skip holding war games in Korea this year is curtailing emission of
copious greenhouse gases from military vehicles. Though the U.S. Army
has tried to present a greener motor infrastructure there is still a
lot of filthy diesel exhaust from military tailpipes. High
performance in power combat platforms can use a lot of gas. Tanks may
have thousand horsepower and up engines and all that greenhouse
gassing exhaust is added to the atmosphere.
If
you consider the war games as human activities designed to accelerate
global warming they are somewhat inefficient. Tens of thousands of
soldiers running about and sailors and airmen turning up dust or
placing pollution high in the atmosphere. Still, the concatenated
effete is substantial. Hence it is good that the President promised
to halt the war games this year and allow both North and South Korea
to continue developing commercial and family ties.
The
Singapore summit of Kim Jong (Rocketman) Un and President Donald
Trump was just the start of what could be progress toward normalizing
relations and ending the state of war that continues in spite of the
recent rapprochement. Korea does not need the threat of nuclear war
developing and the North should recognize that and enjoy the benefits
of peace instead. The United States does not actually need much
practice to launch a variety of stand-off weapons anyway if the North
chose to attack the south.
Though
the Nobel Committee had to cancel this year because of potential
ignoble conflict of interests, if there was a Peace Prize it should
go to Dennis Rodman, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un together for fine
work in wild diplomacy.
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