Medea Benjamin points out ten ways that the Pentagon opposes any climate change solutions:
1.The U.S. military protects Big Oil and other extractive industries.
2. The Pentagon is the single largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world.
3. The Pentagon monopolizes the funding we need to seriously address the climate crisis.
4. Military operations leave a toxic legacy in their wake.
5. Wars ravage fragile ecosystems that are crucial to sustaining human health and climate resiliency.
6. Climate change is a “threat multiplier” that makes already dangerous social and political situations even worse.
7. The U.S. sabotages international agreements addressing climate change and war.
8. Mass migration is fueled by both climate change and conflict, with migrants often facing militarized repression.
9. Militarized state violence is leveled against communities resisting corporate-led environmental destruction.
10. Climate change and nuclear war are both existential threats to the planet.
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