[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: "Greenwashing the Pentagon"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Greenwashing the Pentagon


opinion by Joseph Nevins
Truthout
June 13, 2010

As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, just one of many 
manifestations of perilous ecological degradation across the planet, the 
need to challenge war and militarism - especially in terms of the United 
States - becomes ever-more pressing. The U.S. military is the world's 
single biggest consumer of fossil fuels, and the single entity most 
responsible for destabilizing the Earth's climate.

The costs of U.S. militarism and war are high and many. In addition to 
the growing civilian and military death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
for example, total monies appropriated by Congress for the two wars 
surpassed the one-trillion-dollar mark on May 30th. Among other would-be 
purchases, such an enormous sum could provide 294,734,961 people with 
health care for one year, according to the Northampton, 
Massachusetts-based national Priorities Project. (1) Instead, the monies 
are dedicated to death and destruction - all in the name of "national 
security" - greatly enriching military contractors in the process.


For the entire column, see
http://www.truth-out.org/greening-pentagon60385

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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