While environmental protesters routinely cast "corporations" as the contaminating demons of the Earth, we rarely, if ever, hear protests of the pollution problems created by the US Department of Defense (DoD).

Oh sure, there's plenty of parading around in the name of the environment; from those wanting to be part of the Me Too whining about our earthly habitat and "climate change," to the political actions of lawyers, posing as our Green saviors -- all without a peep on the egregious actions by the Pentagon.

Notwithstanding millions of dead human beings left in its wake throughout the world, the DoD has left a "toxic legacy," producing "more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined." Pentagon contaminants include "depleted uranium, oil, jet fuel, pesticides, defoliants like Agent Orange and lead."

On the Environmental Protection Agency’s register of Superfund cleanup sites, one finds hundreds of military bases. "Almost 900 of the nearly 1,200 Superfund sites in the U.S. are abandoned military facilities or sites that otherwise support military needs, not counting the military bases themselves."

These Superfund sites qualify for government clean-up grant money -- which ultimately comes from taxpayers. That's your money at work.

But the list of environmental crimes committed by the Pentagon is seemingly endless.

“Since 2001, the DoD has consistently consumed between 77 and 80 percent of all US government energy consumption”; the US military is the 55th largest polluter in the world; the US military dumps 20,000 tons of heavy metals and explosives into the oceans; in terms of annual carbon output, the DoD is a worse polluter than over 140 entire countries; the US has exploded more nuclear weapon devices than "all other nations combined"; and American GI Joe has brought about the "desertification of 90 percent" of Iraqi territory -- in all its depleted uranium war crime glory.

And on and on . . .

Politically, we hear no real criticism these days of the Pentagon's actions from either major political party; Trump has thrown this deepest part of the swamp many billions more dollars to waste, while the Democrats on stage running for the presidency are negligently silent.

There used to be some degree of anti-war protest on the Left, but no more. For example, Antifa comically claims to be "anti-fascist," yet never, never protests the fascist economic relationship between the public Pentagon and all of its private military contractors. This incestuous relationship is explicitly fascist in nature, yet we hear nothing.

So for all of those who profess deep care and concern for the environment, it's time to put up or shut up -- name the government/Pentagon.