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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #81, JUNE 27, 2022
Daurelle
and Carliner. “You Can’t ‘Green’ the
Military.”
Vijay Prashad. The US Mainly and Other Developed Countries
Spend Money on Weapons Despite Planetary
Catastrophe.
Kripa Jayaram, Chris Kay, and Dan Murtaugh. China Significantly Reduces Air Pollution.
Cranky Uncle Critical
Thinking Case Studies
“You Can’t 'Green' The Military.”
By B.C. Daurelle and Sam Carliner, Left Voice. Popular
Resistance.org (6-24-22). In 2021, the
U.S. Department of Defense issued its Climate Adaptation Plan, which has
been lauded by corporate media as a supposedly serious mobilization against
climate change. More recently, the U.S. Army has followed suit with its
own Climate Strategy. More and more frequently, Democratic politicians are
learning to frame the eternal imperative of an eternally expanding military
budget in the language of “greening” the military. Similar language is used by
Pentagon higher-ups, and even more frequently by those from the “industry” side
of the military-industrial complex. -more-
Vijay Prashad. “With Clenched
Fists, They Spend Money on Weapons as the Planet Burns.” Tricontinental:
Institute for Social Research.
Two important reports were released last month, neither getting
the kind of attention they deserve.
At COP26, the developed countries pledged to spend a modest $100 billion for the Adaptation Fund to
assist developing countries adapt to climate change. On 4 April, 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change’s Working Group III report was published, evoking a strong reaction from the United
Nations’ Secretary General António Guterres. The report, he said, ‘is a litany of broken climate promises. It is a file of shame,
cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable
world’.
Meanwhile, on 25 April, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) issued its annual report, finding that the world military spending surpassed $2 trillion
in 2021, the first time it has exceeded the $2 trillion mark. The five largest
spenders – the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and Russia –
accounted for 62 percent of this amount; the United States, by itself, accounts
for 40 percent of total arms expenditure.
There is an
endless flow of money for weapons but less than a pittance to avert planetary
disaster.
MORE https://popularresistance.org/with-clenched-fists-they-spend-money-on-weapons-as-the-planet-burns/
June 13, 2022.
China has reduced air
pollution nearly as much in seven years as the US did in three decades, helping
to bring down average global smog levels in the process.The amount of harmful
particulates in the air in China fell 40% from 2013 to 2020, according to the
University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute, which would add about two
years to average life expectancy if sustained. While smog in large swathes of
the country still significantly exceeds safe levels, its experience shows how
quickly progress can be made, researchers including Professor Michael
Greenstone said in a report published Tuesday….continued. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-14/china-s-clean-air-campaign-is-bringing-down-global-pollution#xj4y7vzkg
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