As the world gathers at COP28 in Dubai amidst an accelerating climate crisis, the Oakland Institute’s new brief, Exempted! The US Military Industrial Complex and the Climate Crisis, reveals a critical blind spot in global climate agreements. Despite being the world’s largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases, the US military is completely exempt from international reporting obligations, significantly undermining global climate action.
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Category Archives: Military&Environmental-degradation
El clima bajo fuego cruzado
Cómo el objetivo del 2% de gasto militar de la OTAN contribuye al colapso climático
https://www.tni.org/es/publicaci%C3%B3n/el-clima-bajo-fuego-cruzado
Nuevo tni report by Ho-Chih Lin, Nick Buxton, Mark Akkerman, Deborah Burton, Wendela de Vries,
Climate crossfire
How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/climate-crossfire
A new tni report by Ho-Chih Lin, Nick Buxton, Mark Akkerman, Deborah Burton, Wendela de Vries.
Knowledge alone is no substitute for strategy and action
The facts are well known: the world is facing a double suicide, the fast one by nuclear weapons and the slower one by climate disaster. 2 trillion arms expenditures per year, and 14,000 nuclear weapons in the process of being replaced by new ones in all nuclear weapon states, are central material expressions of this madness. Unrestrained arms export that fuel war on a daily basis and the automation and robotization of war intensified by AI development cast their murderous … Continue reading →
The military is poisoning the Chesapeake Bay
Front page article in the Baltimore Sun today. Maryland to begin testing drinking water, Chesapeake Bay oysters for harmful ‘forever chemicals’ known as PFAS Wisconsin limits fish consumption when waters reach 12 parts per trillion (ppt) of PFAS. My creek, directly across from a Navy base in Maryland, has 1,894.3 ppt of PFAS and people can eat all the oysters, crabs, and fish they want. 1 ppt may threaten human health, especially the developing fetus. There is tremendous concern that … Continue reading →
Das US-Militär verschmutzt die Umwelt stärker als 140 Länder
Das US-Militär verschmutzt die Umwelt stärker als 140 Länder Amerikanische Kampfjets, Transporter und Kriegsschiffe brauchen Unmengen Treibstoff – und verursachen damit gleich viel CO2 wie die ganze Schweiz. Mittwoch 26. Juni 2019 20:32 von Yannick Wiget, Dino Caracciolo https://www.bazonline.ch/wissen/natur/das-usmilitaer-verschmutzt-die-umwelt-staerker-als-140-laender/story/23828059
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There are lessons in the article below that address a loss of human dignity and honor at the hands of an oppressive, ruthless American empire that is poisoning people around the world. The similarities between Germany and Japan are striking 74 years after 1945. People will rise up when they learn they’re being poisoned. The US Military is Poisoning Okinawa https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-us-military-is-poisoning-okinawa/ Pat Elder Addendum Devil’s Been Busy Travelling Wilburys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMXNbjHYh8 Tom Petty: While you’re strolling down the fairway Showing … Continue reading →
What’s in your water? Dems cave on military contamination
Another piece from me.. And more lessons for my European comrades in this revolutionary struggle. This one does the work the New York Times and the Washington Post weren’t interested in covering. It documents how the Democrats are a war and poison party and shows that the Dems are every bit as despicable as the Republicans.
What’s in your water? by Pat Elder
Democrats Back Down From Battle With Defense Department Over PFAS
https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-back-down-from-battle-with-defense-department-over-pfas/