from Win Without War newsletter today:
(duper bowl dumbday)
Chris: Climate events like atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, and heatwaves are only becoming more dangerous and deadly — but so far, our plans to address the crisis have had a giant Pentagon-shaped hole.
Quick recap: The Pentagon is the single largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter on the planet. According to recent estimates, the U.S. war machine pumps out more emissions than 140 other countries. Chris, ALL this pollution is exempt from our current climate goals.
Our trajectory is troubling, but a world on fire is not a foregone conclusion — and luckily, we have a crucial opportunity to change course today.
President Biden is putting the final touches on next year’s federal budget now. That means, he can reprioritize people and the planet, and decrease the worst effects of the Pentagon’s pollution with the stroke of a pen.
It’s a damning statement that instead of addressing this threat head-on, the U.S. government is helping to accelerate it. Sign now if you agree: President Biden’s budget needs to cut Pentagon emissions.
ACT NOW
The warnings are clear, Chris:
To avoid the worst of climate change’s catastrophic effects, the world’s average temperature shouldn’t exceed more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of pre-industrial temps. Scientists reported this week that for the past 12 months, we’ve surpassed that crucial threshold.[1]
The problem? While outlets from Forbes to Fox News and more devote column inches to the environmental impact of the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift’s private jet emissions, there is one mega-polluter that rarely makes the headlines: the Pentagon.
It’s time to face the truth that it requires an INCREDIBLE amount of energy to wage war across the globe — and almost all of it is derived from fossil fuels.
Just one jet in the Pentagon’s fleet, the B-52 Stratofortress, consumes about as much fuel in one hour as the average car driver uses in seven years. 76 of those planes will remain in service until at least 2050.
Chris, our addiction to war is fueling the climate crisis, but here’s why we won’t give up: Every single fraction of a degree of planetary warming we avoid matters. If we can cut even a percentage of the Pentagon’s emissions, we can save lives and protect ecosystems.
That’s why we’re speaking out, and we need you to join us: Add your name to tell the president to make these reductions a reality.
Whether you’re rooting for San Francisco or Kansas City, today you can help ensure we all win a cleaner, healthier future. Please take 30 seconds to act now.
Thank you for working for peace,
Sam, Shayna, Faith, and the Win Without War team
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[1] CNN, "The world just marked a year above a critical climate limit scientists have warned about"
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