Thanatocene: "During the Second World War, General Patton’s Third Army consumed one US gallon of petrol (3.7 litres) per person per day. This figure reached nine gallons during the Vietnam War, ten gallons for Operation Desert Storm, and fifteen gallons during the Second Gulf War. Present-day military technologies have reached unheard-of levels of energy consumption. An Abrams tank in the US Army burns four litres per kilometre. A B-52 bomber burns 12,000 litres of jet fuel per hour, and an F-15 fighter 7,000 litres, comparable to the consumption of an average family car in a whole decade. In 2006, the US Air Force consumed a total of 2.6 billion gallons of jet fuel, as much as was used overseas during the whole of the Second World War." Source: Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (Function). Kindle Edition.

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