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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #258, December 1, 12,
2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
NONVIOLENCE
ORGANIZATIONS v. CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM OF CLIMATE and WARS: BREAKING THE REGIME OF FOSSIL FUELS FASCISM.
[‘Flu” visited me Thanksgiving, the perfect day for an irony-minded
host, and remains my guest today, giving my doctor an opportunity to tell me
about real flu victims. I had gathered
several items for the next Memo, then fell behind, and then the following essay
appeared in my inbox, perfect for a blog named “War and Warming” (recently
amended to include population growth and fascism). –D]
“SIGN NOW: Fossil fuels cause war.”
Drew and the crew at 198 Methods <drew@198methods.org> Dec 9, 2025.
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For
years, we've worked to connect the dots between climate change, the military,
militarism and violence more generally, and fossil fuels. And we just heard
that Congress could vote as soon as this week on a new
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual 'must pass' spending bill
for the US military industrial complex. The legislation Congress is considering
would add $8 billion to Trump's already obscenely high military budget.
That's why a few weeks ago we joined our old allies at BXE to launch a new
campaign this holiday season to address the significant and toxic connection
between war, militarism, and fossil fuels. Now is the time to deliver our
message to Congress before this important vote.
Will you join us and send a letter to your Representative and
Senators asking them to cut military spending, invest in our climate and
communities, and reduce the US Military's use of fossil fuels?
Here's
why we’re working on this now: The US military is already the world's largest
institutional consumer of fossil fuels and contributor to global climate
change. In addition, all militaries around the world are exempt from the
emissions reduction goals of the Paris climate agreement. And those costs and
impacts are not evenly distributed. Countries in the global north spend 30
times (3000%!) more on their militaries than on climate action and
environmental protection. And they are led by the United States which
spends more than $1 trillion each year on its military, more than the next
seven largest military budgets in the world, combined.
But it is not simply the existence of a fossil-fueled military industrial
complex that concerns us. We see clearly that fossil fuel use in this age
of climate disruption leads directly to war and militarized conflict, and vice
versa. And we know that specific areas of conflict and war are at this very
moment being fueled by the greed of corporations and governments to extract and
burn fossil fuels:
·
The first US gulf war in 1991 emitted 131 million
tons of global warming pollution and was widely decried as a war for
oil — something even US officials admitted at the time.
·
The conflict between Russia and
Ukraine began with disputes over shipments of fossil fuels to
Europe, at times stoked or encouraged by the United States. But the war between
the two countries has become a full blown climate and environmental disaster,
emitting more than 230 million tons of global warming pollution as well as
water, air, and chemical pollution Ukrainian activists have documented
how Russia and other nations that rely on fossil fuel exports slide
toward authoritarianism.
·
Israel's genocide in Gaza emitted
more than 32 million tons of global warming pollution. And the discovery of
major natural gas fields off the coast of Palestine were a driver of the
conflict.
·
And now comes the Trump administration,
which has proposed the largest expansion of military spending and the biggest
expansion in fossil fuel extraction and export in US history. The regime's
recent lawless attacks on various boats in the Caribbean and Pacific are only
preamble to what appear to be plans for all out war with Venezuela – a
conflict which they have already acknowledged centers on "seeking
control of oil fields."
These
are only examples, but they paint a clear and concerning pattern: War
fuels the climate crisis, while fossil fuels and climate disruption feed war.
And Donald Trump is supercharging both, to the detriment of all people and
communities around the world. That includes here in the US where people face
militarized police, the deployment of military and national guard forces in our
communities, rising energy prices and a cost of living crisis, and a cascade of
climate fueled disasters from fires to floods. These negative impacts
disproportionately impact frontline communities, including people of color,
low-income households, and other vulnerable groups who are often already facing
environmental injustices.
Click here to send a letter to your
Representative and Senators asking them to take action on our three demands to:
1. Cut
the Pentagon budget by roughly 10%, and re-allocate the funds to healthcare,
education, housing and climate action. Continue with reductions as a US world
peace initiative reduces armed conflicts internationally.
2. End
all US fossil fuel subsidies, valued at more than $190 billion over a 10 year
period, and invest that money in peace and clean energy.
3. Require
the US military to publicly document and report its emissions to the UNFCC, and
produce a plan to reduce them 50% by 2030, and to ‘net zero’ by 2050 – in line
with other US climate commitments.
Together,
we can fight war, stop climate change, and create a peaceful, clean future for
all,
Drew & the 198 methods to resist fossil fueled fascists crew
Sources
1. https://www.198methods.org/2022/12/29/2-victories-6-charts-1-map-and-a-whole-lot-of-pictures/
4. https://www.198methods.org/2025/10/01/tell-congress-you-cant-silence-dissent-with-tear-gas/
7. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/10/pentagon-climate-change-neta-crawford-book/
8. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/warfares-climate-emissions-are-huge-but-uncounted/
9. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spending-vs-world/
10. https://www.merip.org/1991/07/oil-and-the-gulf-war/
11. https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2018-06-18/nord-stream-2-divides-west
12. https://peaceandplanetnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/PPN-15-sm.pdf
14. https://afsc.org/chevron-fuels-israeli-apartheid-and-war-crimes
15. https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/will-trumps-big-beautiful-defense-spending-last
16. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/big-oil-investigation-congress-republicans
17. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-venezuela-pentagon/
18. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-plan-seize-venezuela-oil-10991857
19. https://www.climaterealityproject.org/frontline-fenceline-communities
1.https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/EPWA-2025-One-Pager.pdf
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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #258, December 1, 8,
2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
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