US War Machine fuels climate crisis (video)

Erik Edstrom (democracynow.org, 11/11/21); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

War fuels climate crisis as US military's carbon emissions exceed that of 140+ nations

A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War

(Nov. 9, 2021) “The United States military has been a mechanism of environmental destruction,” says Neta Crawford.

Climate Crisis Glasgow Climate Summit 2021: Climate activists protested outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Monday, spotlighting the role of the U.S. military-industrial complex 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. war campaigns overseas.

Yet, military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from international climate treaties dating back to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol after lobbying from the United States.

Erik Edstrom wrote Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War (Twitter).

DN! goes to Glasgow to speak with War on Iraq veteran Ramón Mejía, an anti-militarism national organizer of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance; War on Afghanistan veteran Erik Edstrom turned climate activist; and the Costs of War project Director Neta Crawford.

GUESTS: Ramón Mejía anti-militarism national organizer of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and Iraq War veteran. Erik Edstrom former U.S. Army infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan and author of Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War. Neta Crawford co-founder and director of the Costs of War project at Brown University.

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