Fight Climate Change and Imperialism Together!

Climate Strike, 9/20/2019

“Department of Defense is the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.”
– Neta C. Crawford: Pentagon Fuel use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War

We need to stop U.S. militarism if we want to end climate change.  The Anti-War Committee knows the peace and climate movements are one and the same.

Our economy’s dependence on fossil fuels has become the number one reason for U.S. military interventions.
It’s a self-perpetuating cycle: To invade for oil, the military consumes oil in the process. In light of coup attempts in Venezuela as well as continuing war threats against oil-rich Iran, now is a pivotal time for the peace movement and the climate movement to come together. Not only has U.S. intervention in Latin America caused the current migrant crisis, it has also ruined the ecologies of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, and El Salvador, creating climate refugees in addition to political asylum-seekers. At the other end of the globe, the U.S. military’s prolonged occupation has desertified much of Iraq, littering it with depleted uranium. People of the global south have long fought against the environmental devastation of imperial invasions, coups, and sanctions. 

We can’t ignore this. To stop oil dependency – to stop climate change itself – we need to end U.S. imperialism.