[CPEO-MEF] "US Military ... Emits More Carbon Than 140 Nations"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

US Military Is Fueling Climate Crisis — It Emits More Carbon Than 140 Nations

By Amy Goodman & Juan González
Democracy Now!
November 9, 2021

Climate activists protested outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Monday spotlighting the role of the U.S. military in fueling the climate crisis. The Costs of War project estimates the military produced around 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions between 2001 and 2017, with nearly a third coming from U.S. wars overseas. But military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from international climate treaties dating back to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol after lobbying from the United States. We go to Glasgow to speak with Ramón Mejía, anti-militarism national organizer of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and Iraq War veteran; Erik Edstrom, Afghanistan War veteran turned climate activist; and Neta Crawford, director of the Costs of War project. “The United States military has been a mechanism of environmental destruction,” says Crawford.

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Lenny Siegel
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