#it's just weird to use averages in this way and calculating the emissions of random military people veers dangerously close to

[slyandthefamilybook]

wait what

Yes, the military employs about 3 million people and yes if you average the numbers out Taylor puts out more CO2 than any one of them. But averages aren't always a valid representation of statistics. The vast majority of military servicemembers don't have any connection to whatever apparati are involved in the military's CO2 production. They're mainly office workers who produce no more emissions than you or I when they, idk, drive to work (not to mention the 3 million number includes civilian contractors who don't do anything for the military that they wouldn't do for any other employer). The average non-military person puts out about 14-15 tons of CO2 per year, which is pretty close to that 17 number. So if we're just going by the average person there isn't much statistical significance to compare Taylor to people in the military vs just regular people. Coca-Cola puts out about 5.5 million tons of CO2 per year and employs roughly 80,000 people, so by average we can determine that any given Coca-Cola employee emits 68.75 tons of CO2 per year, or about 4 times the average military employee (or 0.83 Taylor Swifts). It would make more sense to say "Taylor Swift emits as much CO2 as 12 F-35 jets" or whatever

The US military emitted 640 times as much CO2 as Taylor Swift last year