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invasion of Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022. That's actually one of the most thoroughly documented wars of the modern era and it was actually one of the first documented wars where we had an environmental baseline and there was carbon accounting that took place during the conflict which is ongoing. So the first milestone was that over the first 48 months of the conflict it was estimated that 311.4 million tons of carbon dioxide were released and of course that ends in February 2026 and that's that amount of carbon is equivalent to the entire annual greenhouse output of France and that basically illustrates that when you have this type of modern high intensity warfare it operates not only on a huge scale but it's also on an industrialized nation state scale right the very very big scale.