New Report Details How Vast Military Spending By the Richest Countries Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis — Jeremy Kuzmarov

While the world’s climate negotiators gathered for the COP27 summit in Egypt, a new report published by the Transnational Institute, a Dutch think tank, emphasizes how rising global military spending is a great threat to efforts to combat climate change.

According to the report’s authors, “every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas emissions, but also diverts financial resources, skills and attention away from tackling one of the greatest threats humanity has ever experienced.”...

This is not new knowledge, but it bears repeating.

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New Report Details How Vast Military Spending By the Richest Countries Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis
Jeremy Kuzmarov