Let’s get out from under the carbon military boot print

JVL Introduction

Military spending surges ahead everywhere as a result of the war in Ukraine but its carbon implications for planetary survival are ignored.

Although the scale of military expenditure in the Global North dwarves countries’ domestic investment in combatting climate change it is not accounted for in the Paris Agreement.

This limited investment also goes nowhere near helping Global South countries develop without reliance on fossil fuels.

The Global North’s fantasy seems to be that we can “build a wall” to keep the human consequences of climate breakdown at bay.

The basic reality is highlighted below with a few telling – and chilling – graphics.

RK

This article was originally published by Urban Ramblings on Wed 21 Jun 2023. Read the original here.