WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #95, October 12, 2022
Neta C. Crawford. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War (book).
NAPF v. Nuclear War.
AFSC: Sign the petition to stop endless wars.
Convergence of War and Warming
Neta C. Crawford. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. MIT, 2022. 392 pp.
How the Pentagon became the world's largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it's not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption.
The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense [War]—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military's growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels.
NUCLEAR AGE PEACE FOUNDATION (NAPF) v. Nuclear Weapons.
The international days that align with our mission were commemorated and promoted at the United Nations in New York in September. They are the International Day Against Nuclear Tests(August 29) and the International Day For Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (September 26). NAPF supports the absolute imperative of nuclear weapons abolition, drawing on lessons from the past, the current state of affairs, and what studies – including those of nuclear winter – tell us about the future on Earth ravaged by nuclear war. Please watch our statement at the UN HERE!
Sign the petition to stop endless wars: In 2002, Congress passed the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force, which authorized the invasion of Iraq. Today, 20 years later, any president can still use the AUMF to justify endless wars. This year is our best opportunity to finally repeal this authorization. Add your name to our petition with Daily Kos and urge senators to repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF. From the AFSC.