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| style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: #99e1d9; height: 32px;" | <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''Spending more to keep climate migrants out than to stop the climate crisis'''</span> | | style="width: 19.6976%; background-color: #99e1d9; height: 32px;" | <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'''Spending more to keep climate migrants out than to stop the climate crisis'''</span> | ||
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*'''Canada is <span style="font-size: 14.4px;" >spending 15x more right now on the militarization of its </span>borders than on the climate financing''' that is meant to mitigate climate change... in other words, Canada one of the countries most responsible for the climate crisis, is spending vastly more right now on arming its borders to keep migrants out that on tackling one of the crises that's forcing people to flee their homes in the first place. - Rachel Small <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> | *'''Canada is <span style="font-size: 14.4px;">spending 15x more right now on the militarization of its </span>borders than on the climate financing''' that is meant to mitigate climate change... in other words, Canada one of the countries most responsible for the climate crisis, is spending vastly more right now on arming its borders to keep migrants out that on tackling one of the crises that's forcing people to flee their homes in the first place. - Rachel Small <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> | ||
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*"The Canadian mining industry is the global leader in mining for war machines from uranium, to metals, to rare earth elements used in every single F35 fighter jet bombing Gaza." -Rachel Small <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> | *"The Canadian mining industry is the global leader in mining for war machines from uranium, to metals, to rare earth elements used in every single F35 fighter jet bombing Gaza." -Rachel Small <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> | ||
***"Every single one of those F-35s has over 900 PBS of rare earth elements. These require open pit mines on an almost unfathomable scale to extract... and '''globally 1/4 of all greenhouse gas emissions come from mining'''... the field that Canada is the global leader on." - Rachel Small <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> | ***"Every single one of those F-35s has over 900 PBS of rare earth elements. These require open pit mines on an almost unfathomable scale to extract... and '''globally 1/4 of all greenhouse gas emissions come from mining'''... the field that Canada is the global leader on." - Rachel Small <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> | ||
*Military emissions aren't included in federal GHG reduction targets. A<span> low estimate</span> of global militarism’s contribution to global fossil fuel emissions is 5.5%. This is about 2x the GHG's of non-military flights. '''If global militarism were a country, it would rank 4th in greenhouse gas emissions'''. <ref>https://worldbeyondwar.org/environment/</ref> <span></span> | *Military emissions aren't included in federal GHG reduction targets. A<span> low estimate</span> of global militarism’s contribution to global fossil fuel emissions is 5.5%. This is about 2x the GHG's of non-military flights. '''If global militarism were a country, it would rank 4th in greenhouse gas emissions'''. <ref>https://worldbeyondwar.org/environment/</ref> <span></span> | ||
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*Abroad and all around the world,''' Indigenous land defenders against oil, gas and mining in their communities are met with militarized violence inflicted by their states. The companies extracting, transporting, burning and investing in this violence are companies from the Global North'''. | *Abroad and all around the world,''' Indigenous land defenders against oil, gas and mining in their communities are met with militarized violence inflicted by their states. The companies extracting, transporting, burning and investing in this violence are companies from the Global North'''. | ||
*<div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" aria-label="1 hour, 20 minutes, 34 seconds largely informed by former CIA director David Petraeus um who was the lead">C-IRG, often deployed on Indigenous land defenders, is largely informed by former CIA director David Petraeus, the lead commander for the CIA who was on the ground during Afghanistan and Iraq. He's been testing his playbook on countering insurgencies on the Wet'suwet'en. - Maya Menezes <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> </div> | *<div class="segment style-scope ytd-transcript-segment-renderer" role="button" aria-label="1 hour, 20 minutes, 34 seconds largely informed by former CIA director David Petraeus um who was the lead">C-IRG, often deployed on Indigenous land defenders, is largely informed by former CIA director David Petraeus, the lead commander for the CIA who was on the ground during Afghanistan and Iraq. He's been testing his playbook on countering insurgencies on the Wet'suwet'en. - Maya Menezes <ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8</ref> </div> | ||
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*<span>Tens of millions of landminds and cluster bombs them are estimated to be on the earth. A 1993 U.S. State Department report called them “the most toxic and widespread pollution facing mankind.” </span> | |||
*<span>Land mines damage the environment in four ways: “fear of mines denies access to abundant natural resources and arable land; populations are forced to move preferentially into marginal and fragile environments in order to avoid minefields; this migration speeds depletion of biological diversity; and land-mine explosions disrupt essential soil and water processes.” - Jennifer Leaning</span> | |||
*<span>Toxins from war also remain in the land, air and water. For example, between 1944 and 1970 the U.S. military<span> dumped chemical weapons</span> into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. As the canisters of nerve gas and mustard gas slowly corrode and break open underwater, the toxins flow out, killing sea life and killing and injuring fishermen. <ref>https://worldbeyondwar.org/environment/</ref> </span> | |||
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Revision as of 20:57, 14 May 2024
Militarism can be defined as: "The normalization of war and preparation for war, prioritizing the needs and interests of military institutions and extension of military culture and influence into everyday life such as in education, central and local government and business, charities etc." -ForcesWatch
War and militarism are climate justice issues
Many of the examples in this table were included from the event Climate Justice and Imperialism: Debunking Global Systems of Oppression.
"Money for war, can't feed the poor"
Wars are fought over oil and gas |
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Spending more to keep climate migrants out than to stop the climate crisis |
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"Money for war, can't feed the poor" |
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Mining minerals and burning oil and gas for war |
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Military violence on Indigenous land defenders |
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Direct environmental destruction |
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Examples from around the world
The occupation of Palestine is a climate issue [10] |
Israel‘s occupation and apartheid, which denies Palestinians the right to manage their land and resources, makes them more vulnerable to climate-related events. Military powers are used to enforce the apartheid.
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Myanmar |
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- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8
- ↑ https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/11/14/opinion/true-peace-and-justice-possible-if-world-transitions-clean-energy
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8
- ↑ https://worldbeyondwar.org/environment/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG9Orl4cn8
- ↑ https://worldbeyondwar.org/environment/
- ↑ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/11/28/palestine-is-a-climate-justice-issue
- ↑ https://eastasiaforum.org/2023/11/09/conflicts-intensify-climate-change-risks-in-myanmar/