The U.S. enforces its violent empire by maintaining almost 800 military bases around the world. Each one contaminates the soil. Occupies land. Each base contributes to the U.S. military project’s status as #1 institutional polluter in the world, as it unleashes over a billion metric tons of CO2 in the atmosphere. As it destroys the built and natural environment wherever its boots touch the ground.
But this information is buried. Mainstream environmental organizations don’t discuss it, and instead, they work together with military contractors. Just like cigarette companies hid the reality of their deadly impacts, the U.S. government hides how our tax dollars are going to advance the climate crisis threatening the existence of all life on earth. And it does this by using these environmentally devastating materials to murder and occupy the homes of millions around the world.
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As Earth Day approaches on April 22nd, we are calling attention to the need to unite the climate justice and anti-war movements to address our inextricably linked goals. All April long, we are addressing the elephant in the room when it comes to climate: that war, imperialism, and militarism must be dismantled in order to save our planet from climate collapse and save lives from our environmental sacrifice zones. We will confront the many dimensions of U.S. militarism around the world: its global presence and sprawl of military bases, its impact on the land, nuclear expansion, and endless war. We'll explore how to create an anti-militarist climate movement that works to end wars, prioritizes Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, and imagines peace through liberation.