The United States military, the Department of Defense in general.
It has always been a really, really horrible organization for the environment, not just
here in the US, but really all over the world.
I mean, they are one of the leading polluters on the planet.
They are the largest consumer of fossil fuels here in the United States, and now they're
trying to just kick it up a notch.
You know, they've said it's not, it's not bad enough that we're burdening all the fossil
fuel or that we're poisoning communities with our, our toxic chemicals like PFOAs and PFASs,
how about we pave over the Galapagos islands down there in Ecuador to create new landing
strips for our spy planes.
Now, that may seem like an article out of the onion, but in fact, that's actually what
the Pentagon has worked out.
Now with the government of Ecuador who controls the Galapagos Islands, they have agreed to
let the Pentagon go to the Galapagos Islands and expand airstrips, some of which already
exist, and they're going to build some new ones to accommodate some of these really massive
military planes that constantly fly over the Pacific to spy on other countries.
These are spy planes, radar, satellite, all of that.
We want to make sure nobody's coming close to our country because we are just exceptionally
paranoid as a nation and we don't care what kind of environment we destroy, even if it
is one of the most ecologically diverse on the planet, as we see in the Galapagos islands.
Now, to mention the historical importance of that ecological diversity as we're Darwin
went and understood, started to begin to really understand evolution in those theories, but
sharp Pentagon, go pave over it.
Let's have that be our base in the Pacific so you can spy on other countries.
Destroying endangered species in order to spy on other human beings and other countries
is pretty much exactly what you would expect from the United States.
And again, I wish this was satire.
I wish this was parody, but it's not.
This is actually what our federal government is moving towards now.
Luckily, even though the leaders of the Ecuadorian government have said, yeah, sure, come on,
pave over this.
Watch over those big giant turtles.
Um, the parliament down there in Ecuador has said, hold up.
We're, we're not exactly okay with this.
And they want to have hearings on it.
They will.
They want to talk about how this is going to destroy the environment in the Galapagos
Islands.
So there is a chance this plan by the Pentagon may get halted, but that is a slim chance.
And if it proceeds, this could be one of the most devastating environmental impacts that
the United States military has ever had.
Again, this would be destroying parts of the most ecologically diverse region on the planet.
One of the few unspoiled areas on this planet.
And the Pentagon wants to pave over it so they can have a new home for all their spy
planes.