Beware gearing up to push back against Russian aggression in Eastern Europe because it isn’t climate friendly is the warning in a new German report cautioning NATO.
NATO having a defense spending target for its members is bad for the environment and building more weapons to donate to Ukraine risks damaging the climate, a report by a group of think tanks and pressure groups warns. [emphasis, links added]
It is alleged that while the militaries of NATO produced 200 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2021, it will rise to a predicted 226 million tons in 2023, driven by rearmament and increased activity spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The paper claims that the figure could rise to 300 million tons a year by the end of this decade.
The findings of the yet-to-be-published report were revealed by Germany’s Spiegel news magazine, and [it claims] if the carbon emissions as calculated by the paper of all of NATO’s military activity were counted together, they would be the equivalent of a large country.
Pushing to re-arm to defend the West against Russian aggression is contrary to “Germany’s climate goals” and it is notable that all federal departments in Germany are facing cuts except defense, Angelika Claußen who contributed to the study said, reports Die Welt.
One of the contributing partners to the study is the Spanish Delàs Center for Peace Studies, which earlier this year published another similar document on “transnational corporations, warmongering and the climate emergency”, which found that “war and war preparation [is] fossil-fuel intensive activities.”
The paper said it had discovered:
Military spending not only takes away resources that could be devoted to tackling climate change, investing in global justice and promoting peaceful conflict transformation and disarmament, but also heavily contributes to the climate crisis, due to the substantial [Greenhouse Gas] emissions from the military and arms industry and other environmental damage for which it is responsible.
The organization said military operations are never the solution “to any problem”, and accused the West of preparing to use military force to gain access to fossil fuels to “safeguard its environmentally unsustainable way of life” in the future.
“Ecofeminist” solutions and collective action were the answer to the future’s challenges, they said.
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“…military operations are never the solution “to any problem…”
Tell that to the residents of Carthage.
This is another example of an agenda that can not make it on its own merit trying to hitchhike on the climate change movement. The statement “military operations are never the solution to any problem” show the main focus of the paper is pacifist. It also ignores wars such as World War II which resulted in a clear solution. It also ignores inconvenient the fact is that carbon dioxide is past its saturation point and increase levels be it from making military equipment or concrete would have negligible impact on the climate.
So the solution for these idiots is to disarm and let Russia, China and ever other dictatorship just come in and take our countries and freedoms. And those in the Middle East will slaughter Jews, Christians, and other degenerates (you LGBTQ+ are also goners). But if it saves the planet then all is good. But of course not one of those countries are going to reduce their CO2 reduction since they haven’t drank the “Climate Crisis” koolaid.