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Um not considering all the "energy" consumed just to maintain current activity, some of the military bases are notorious polluters of groundwater and some of em I think are on "the list" - of the worst polluted sites in the land.

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/dod_npl_cleanup/map/

In my former "work life" I was responsible to a degree for a site that used to be on the National Priorities List - https://www.epa.gov/superfund/about-superfund-cleanup-process#npl

Twas an industrial site where the groundwater got contaminated with halogenated chemicals that are most resistant to "breakdown" in the soil - I think they were chlorinated.

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Oh - I could tell you about one time at another site (not on that list if I recall), but where a fair amount of funds had been set aside and there were so many "monitoring wells" there - at various depths based on the geologist opinion of the soil and rocks below - and from this one well they pumped up actual......can't remember the term offhand - it was concentrated contamination damn near pure after the water was pumped.....that ain't good - it means there must be a shitload down there (or elsewhere with no well) - and think about it - in the 40's and the 50's at all the various military sites - hell in the 60's and 70's as well - and shit probably the 80's, 90's - even up to today - when they had some sort of chemical or other kinds of waste - they just dumped it somewhere!

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Unsteady's avatar

And they ruptured the Nordstream Pipleline - that’s one we can’t talk about.

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