By: War Resisters’ International.
https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2024/short-primer-militarism-and-climate-crisis
“For many, the past years have in various ways been defined by climate change and war. Our everyday lives carry signs of escalating climate and military crises; seemingly infinite stories of ecological collapse and of armed conflict. Whether we are living through such violences ourselves, or coping with news flashes and social media images of burning forests and buildings bombed to rubble, ours is a time of global war and global warming. Most often, however, we do not think of these processes as connected. The truth is, they very much are. But how so?”
“In what physical spaces are climate crises intersecting with militarism?
And how can we look to the technologies of war – such as arms and the materials required for their making – to grasp the material realities behind militarism, and their huge ecological impact?
An obvious first place to look for how military-climate links manifest in space – become material – is in the earth’s systems: in our soils, air and waters.”
