IS MILITARISM FUELLING CLIMATE CRISIS?

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A new report, whichexamines the federal budget, illuminates the deep connections between theclimate emergency and the US armed forces, arguing that the move to a greeneconomy requires a just transition away from fossil fuels and endless war.

The report, entitled " No Warming, No War: how militarism fuels the climatecrisis - and vice versa ",argues that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic "has completely changed lifeas we know it" and warns against efforts to return to an old normalitythat was "defined by limitless capitalism that thrives on the devastationof the planet, the devaluation of human life and the use of military force toperpetuate both".

"On a local and global scale, humanity andthe community were co-opted by profit and violence. This 'normality' has nowbrought us to the brink of an existential crisis, as climate change remainsalmost unabated," write co-authors Lorah Steichen and Lindsay Koshgarianin the preface. "In the face of COVID-19 and the climate crisis, weurgently need to move from a culture of war to a culture of care."

The report was published Wednesday, 50 the annual celebration of Earth Day, the National Priorities Project (NPP - National Priorities Project) at theInstitute for Policy Studies (IPS). The NPP, which made up the 2014 NobelPeace Prize candidate list, tracks military spending and encourages a federalbudget "that represents the priorities of Americans, including funding forpopular issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the needto build a green economy ".

Along with a summary on the IPS website and a postfrom Steichen, the NPP produced infographics highlighting the report'skey findings, including that half of all wars between countries since 1973 havebeen linked to fossil fuel resources, mainly in the oil-rich Middle East. Accordingto the NPP, "the US armed forces spend about $ 81 billion a year toprotect the world's oil supply - even before accounting for the war inIraq."

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