Collection of posters: U.S and the Environment 1

Did you know that...

According to the Paris Agreement (2016) the temperature increase limit is 1.5 °C. But based on the current agreements on reducing air pollutants, the temperatures of the earth may increase by 3.2 °C in this century leading to vast and destructive changes.

The U.S. is the biggest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.

The United States' big step toward destroying the earth

The United States is the first country to withdraw the Paris Agreement which was signed by 190 countries and is legally binding.

U.S. Army, the biggest enemy of the environment

Due to using various kinds of chemical and radioactive materials, nuclear tests, producing dangerous and toxic waste, contaminating waters in the regions around factories and more dangerously, using weapons containing  depleted uranium in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans, the U.S. Army has caused many environmental and human damages.

U.S and the Environment

The biggest environmental victims of the U.S. army:

- American troops

- U.S. citizens

- Residents of areas attacked by the U.S. army

- Areas hosting the U.S. Army military bases such as South Korea, the Philippines, Panama...

Newsweek:

The US Department of Defence is one of the world's worst polluters. Its footprint dwarfs that of any corporation: 4,127 installations spread across 19 million acres of American soil.