VIDEO: How the Pentagon Fuels Climate Chaos
Includes Devon Grayson-Wallace, Peace Action Maine, facilitator; Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard; Janet Weil, Veterans For Peace, CCMP; David Swanson, World BEYOND War.
Includes Devon Grayson-Wallace, Peace Action Maine, facilitator; Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard; Janet Weil, Veterans For Peace, CCMP; David Swanson, World BEYOND War.
Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility.
The ballooning U.S. military budget (larger than the next ten countries combined) diverts funds from desperately-needed responses to both community health and social service needs, as well as climate crisis challenges.
We’re passed the “First, They Ignore You” phase.
David Swanson, co-founder of World BEYOND War will tell us about the big campaign to get COP26 to include the biggest source of environmental damage of all: the Military/War System.
In a remarkable feat of epistemic magic, 500 environmental and peace organizations and nearly 25,000 individuals have endorsed a petition that will be delivered to the COP26 climate conference — a petition proposing a solution that could add dramatically to efforts to protect the Earth’s climate, but a solution that it is impossible for most members of the homo sapiens species to become aware of.
This report finds that the world’s biggest emitters are spending an average 2.3 times as much on arming borders on climate finance, and up to15 times as much for the worst offenders. This “Global Climate Wall” aims to seal off powerful countries from migrants, rather than addressing the causes of displacement.
Daniel Ellsberg is a former U.S. military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times.
When locals learned that the Johnson County, Iowa, sheriff’s office had gotten hold of a massive, mine-resistant vehicle, Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek reassured a skeptical public that officers would primarily use it during extreme weather events in order to save residents from the state’s extraordinary blizzards or floods.