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.

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...

The Guardian
View In: Climate Change and the MilitaryUS military aims for net zero by 2050 but with a carbon footprint greater than some 140 countries critics say it needs radical changeThe US military, an institution whose carbon footprint exceeds that of nearly 140 countries, says it wants to go green.On 8 February, the US army released its climate strategy...

Popular Resistance
View In: Climate Change and the Military“The U.S. military is the largest institutional polluter in the world. There is no corporation or industry that compares to the damage and devastation done by the U.S. war machine,” Abby Martin told Watchdog host Lowkey today. Abby Martin is a California-based artist, journalist and filmmaker who i...

Inside Climate News
View In: Climate Change and the MilitaryThis story originally appeared on the War Horse.  In the fall of 2018, Neta C. Crawford, a political science professor at Boston University, prepared to teach a class on climate change designed to help students think about the issue in a big-picture way. Crawford’s research expertise is in war, so sh...