COP29: War is Not Green! Oil Corps Won’t Lead The Way!

With COP29 comming up in Azjerbijan, we are bracing ourselves for the convening oil and gas corporations feining care for the planet and commitment to environmental justice despite funding weapons and genocide. This contradiction intensifies when we realize that up until 2023 the country supplying arms for Azerbaijan's human right violations was Israel in exchange for oil in which Israel is Azerbaijan's main buyer.  

 The United States also plays a significant role, as its Pentagon continues to be the single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and most expensive military in the world including annual military assistance to Azerbaijan, contributing to its position as one of the most polluted countries in Europe and Central Asia. 

Destroying the earth is just another tactic the U.S. war machine is willing to commit to achieve their imperialism goals. What we are currently seeing in Haiti and Palestine is war permanently destroying access to clean water, turning air unbreathable, and instigating famine. This is having and will continue to have detrimental effects on the health of Gazans and Haitians, years from now. Despite this, US lawmakers have failed to take significant action to stop sending weapons to Israel or cease the deployment of Kenyan mercenaries and instead continues to invest in war globally. 

This year at COP29 we reject the hollow commitments of oil and gas corporations and demand true protection of the earth and humanity. If we want to end climate change, we must call for an end to US funded wars. As anti-war organizers, environmentalists and climate change activists, we must make our commitment to peace explicit. Our planet depends on it.

 WAR IS NOT GREEN! GENOCIDE=ECOCIDE!