Climate Change and the Military

Speaking Security
View In: Climate Change and the MilitarySpeaking Security Newsletter | Note n°192 | 24 January 2023

CovertAction Magazine
View In: Climate Change and the MilitarySo why do climate justice groups like 350.org support the war in Ukraine? While the world’s climate negotiators gathered for the COP27 summit in Egypt, a new report published by the Transnational Institute, a Dutch think tank, emphasizes how rising global military spending is a great threat to effort...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Climate Change and the Military“We need to be reducing U.S. militarism and redirecting that money towards climate solutions,” said one veteran who took part in the demonstration.

scheerpost.com
View In: Climate Change and the MilitaryThe U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.

The Guardian
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While we're on the subject of the obscene, insane, and unconscionable US war budget —

— we also should remember that the US military is the single biggest *polluter* in the world.

From the Guardian:

A 2019 report found that the Department of Defense is not only the largest consumer of energy in the US, but is also the world's largest institutional consumer of petroleum and, thus, the world's largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases.

Via: @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social

Alternet.org
View In: Climate Change and the MilitaryOn a recent Saturday, Monaeka Flores made the drive from her apartment to her family’s land on the north coast of Guam, the U.S. island territory about 1,500 miles south of Japan. As she steered through a gap in a limestone cliff, the land fell away to her right. A lush tropical forest sloped down t...