Thanks for watching Broadening Our Ideas of Climate Justice Session #5: Militarism and Climate Justice!
Here are resources for further learning:
From Dr. Patrick Bigger (Climate and Community Project):
- “Less War, Less Warming” report by Dr. Patrick Bigger and colleagues:
- For folks who’d rather listen than read, an interview we did on US/UK military emissions on NPR Science Friday
- Guardian coverage of paper on climate impacts of genocide in Gaza
From Angel Parker (Dissenters):
- The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Earth
- Activists Block Entrances to St. Charles Boeing Plant
- Campus police arrested 57 at pro-Palestinian sit-in at UMass Amherst
- Support and read more from Dissenters
- Teen Vogue coverage: Gaza: College Students Walk Out Calling for Israel Ceasefire
Mentioned by Tara Houska:
- The Shoshone People – “the most bombed nation on Earth”
Statement with the Petro quote that Patrick referred to: https://www.climateandcommunity.org/ceasefire-now
Shared in Q&A by David Solnit: Nowartax.org is site of long term national war tax resistance campaign, part of which redirect resisted taxes to climate and social justice projects
Further reading:
- The U.S. Is Spending a Fortune on War and a Pittance on the Climate Crisis
- Indigenous Islanders in Guam Take on the Military
- Sierra Club workers challenge leadership’s greenwashing ‘apartheid tours’
- How NATO’s 2% military spending targets contribute to climate breakdown
- How military spending accelerates climate breakdown
- Arab–Israeli eco-normalisation: Greenwashing settler colonialism in Palestine and the Jawlan