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Nuclear war is the ultimate culmination of climate catastrophe and the war economy, which in of itself is one of the greatest contributors to climate change on the planet. The US is already creating ecocide that devastates the short and long-term surival in zones of occupation and genocide like Gaza and Ukraine, while expanding into the Asia-Pacific region for meaningless escalation with China, and poisoning islands along the way. Use of nuclear weapons would completely devastate the global ecosystem. 

When it comes to the climate, the US military is the elephant in the room, as the largest institutional polluter in the world. That’s why we have so much power to disrupt the war machine by uniting the anti-militarist and climate justice movements. 

Tell the USINDOPACOM:  The Pacific Needs to Survive! Close Our Bases!

Pacific island nations recently testified at the World Court on the responsibility of nations in the climate crisis in accordance with International Human Rights Law. 

The U.S. military has long been expanding into the Pacific for our government’s own selfish short-term interests to escalate against China, while emitting millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere that existentially threaten the same island nations it occupies the land of. Its expansion has also come with contamination of drinking water, leakages of toxic chemicals, and bomb testing that destroys ecosystems. 

Amidst this historic case on the responsibility of nations regarding climate change, the U.S. must take responsibility for its role in destroying the livability of the Pacific. Tell Admiral Samuel L. Paparo to close these bases in the Pacific for the climate, world, and survival of the Pacific. 

Invite your friends in climate and anti-war organizations to take the pledge: 

We need to unite the movements for climate justice and for peace. Both movements are fighting the same war economy that prioritizes people over profit, and puts it’s money into militarism. 

So why is the U.S. war machine still unaddressed? Amidst a constantly shifting political terrain, our only hope for ecological and planetary survival is to stop the war machine that continues its endless wars for oil and dominance.

Spotlighting the Cost of War: We Choose the People and Planet!
Sign on, and send this letter to your organization and your friends in others: click here 

"We, the undersigned, are writing as organizers, climate organizations, anti-war organizations, and allied communities deeply concerned about the continued existence of people and ecosystems throughout the world. The recent UN Climate Conference, more commonly known as COP, failed to allocate anywhere close to the amount, pace, and type of climate financing to the Global South that is needed. It failed to address one of the largest and long-time elephants in the room when it comes to climate change: militarism. It is critical that militarism’s role in the climate crisis is given a spotlight.  

We recognize that:

1. The United States military is the #1 institutional polluter in the world. 

The Pentagon uses 4.6 billion gallons of fuel annually. This accounts for approximately 77-80% of all US government energy consumption. If the U.S. military were its own country, it would rank as the 47th largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. 

2. U.S. military bases around the world have caused significant harm to drinking water and ecosystems crucial for planetary biodiversity, natural cycles, agricultural practices, and simply health and safety. 

The US has around 800 military bases around the world. Over the last several decades, in increasing escalation with China, the US has continued to build up more and more presence and funding for military operations in the Asia Pacific. Many of these bases trample on Indigenous territory, the sovereignty of nations, and release harmful chemicals into the waters and soils such as Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. 

The conflicts, wars, and occupations that the U.S. has partaken in and funded have led to extreme degradation of the natural systems that our earth relies on. In its first two months alone, the genocide in Gaza released more emissions than 20 countries combined. The complete degradation of every aspect of Gaza’s environment will make life extremely difficult to sustain long-term. The war in Ukraine has emitted more than 119 million tons of carbon dioxide and destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of forest. Both the continued escalation in the SWANA region and the war in Ukraine risk the use of nuclear weapons, which would threaten complete planetary destruction–  it is a terrifying sign that we are even having conversations about the possible use of these weapons. 

Many terrifying environmental crises from within the U.S. that we consistently address in climate spaces, from the LA Fires, to the devastating flooding in Appalachia caused by Hurricane Helene are only exacerbated by decades of warmaking from the world’s largest institutional polluter. Every local catastrophe is a part of the global war economy.  Amidst the diverse array of tactics, targets, and solutions that our organizations collectively employ to create a safer and more just world –  we are united in lifting up the significance of militarism as one of the largest contributors to the climate crisis. The war economy is simply catastrophic for the reciprocal relationships between people and our natural environment. We choose our continued global existence. We choose peace, sovereignty, diplomacy, and liberation over war, occupation, genocide, and degradation!" 

Learn about the intersections of Climate and Militarism!

Explore the War Is Not Green page and Watch our webinar on what the recent UN Climate Conference, COP 29, left out. 

And do some reading!



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