See, without the military there would be no war, and without war there would be no ‘climate change’. Because there was never war prior to the invention of the fossil fueled engine. And, of course, they had to drag Bat Soup Virus into this
‘No Warming, No War’: Report Details How US Militarism and Climate Crisis Are Deeply Interwoven
A new report examining the federal budget illuminates the deep connections between the climate emergency and the U.S. military, arguing that the shift to a green economy requires a just transition away from both fossil fuels and endless war.
The report, entitled No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis—and Vice Versa (pdf), says that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic “has utterly changed life as we know it” and warns against working toward a return to an old normal which was “defined by unfettered capitalism that thrives on the devastation of our planet, the devaluation of human life, and the use of military force to perpetuate both.”
“On a local and global scale, humanity and community have been co-opted by profit and violence. This ‘normal’ has now brought us to the brink of an existential crisis as climate change continues nearly unabated,” co-authors Lorah Steichen and Lindsay Koshgarian write in the foreword. “In the face of both COVID-19 and the climate crisis, we urgently need to shift from a culture of war to a culture of care.”
Tell you what: you get every single nation to give up its military at the same time, and I’ll Believe. But, yeah, those super non-capitalist nations of the USSR, China, Cambodia, Nazi Germany, they were super peaceful, right? Mao, Stalin (and the others), Hitler, the Khmer Rouge, they were really nice, right?
The report was published Wednesday, the 50th annual Earth Day, by the National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). A 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, NPP tracks military spending and promotes a federal budget “that represents Americans’ priorities, including funding for people’s issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health, and the need to build a green economy.”
It’s all just Progressive (nice Fascism) gobbledygook, like we keep seeing, using ‘climate change’ as a basis to scare people into giving up their money and freedom, and for government to simply take Power.
As NPP’s experts explain, the massive U.S. military—with its over two million members and an annual budget exceeding $700 billion—is “among the biggest polluters” on the planet, producing about 59 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, more than countries such as Sweden, Denmark, and Portugal, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
Leftists have long had a hard-on to get rid of, or at least totally defang, the U.S. military, which has safeguarded world freedom since WWI, while typically ignoring militaries like Russia’s, China’s, Iran’s, and so forth, as well as the violence from the Islamist groups. The whining continues for a while, even delving into the Border Patrol using drones, until we get to
“To achieve climate justice, we must transform the extractive economy we have now that is harming people and ecosystems,” the report says. “Resisting militarization is core to building an economy that works for people and the planet. As such, we must pursue solutions to the climate crisis that challenge the violent and oppressive systems that have fueled war and warming for generations.”
They never quite want to say what will truly be the replacement for capitalism, or how it will work. Which is the norm.
