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The Pentagon, Climate Change and War

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Neta Crawford, Professor in international relations at the University of Oxford

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Prof. Neta Crawford

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Maria Gilardin Contact Contributor

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July 5, 2023, 3:34 a.m.

Summary: She co-founded the Costs of War Project at Brown University in 2010 and currently serves as a project co-director.

She is the author of "The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions" (MIT Press). She spoke at a book release event on September 29, 2022, at Harvard University.

The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military's growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels.

DATE: September 29, 2022, at Harvard University
CREDIT: Prof. Neta Crawford and Mahindra Humanities Center

SOURCE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvFiSr7T0bs

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