[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY - "Military vs. Climate Security"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military vs. Climate Security

Miriam Pemberton
Foreign Policy In Focus
January 31, 2008

Executive Summary

Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore called on the nations of the 
world to mobilize to avert climate disaster "with a sense of urgency and 
shared resolve that has previously been seen only when nations have 
mobilized for war."

This report measures in fiscal terms how far our own nation has to go to 
reach that goal. For the 2008 fiscal year, the government budgeted 
$647.51 billion for military security. It budgeted $7.37 billion to slow 
climate change.

...

In addition to laying out the disparities between the two budgets and 
analyzing where the money is going, this report traces the connections 
between military and climate security, including the following:

     * Climate change will create enormous problems for the U.S. 
military, as the military itself has confirmed.
     * The U.S. military contributes to the problem of climate change 
more than any other single institution worldwide.
     * The Bush administration's foreign policy of leading with one (the 
military) and largely ignoring the other (stabilizing climate) are the 
two most prominent causes of the United States' loss of standing in the 
world.

...

For the entire Executive Summary and a link to the full report, see
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4933

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