Welcome to The Climate Report on Forward Radio WFMP 106.5 FM, Louisville. Also streaming worldwide at Forwardradio.org
This is Hart Hagan your host.
We are on episode number 352, Wars R Us
Wars are the way we settle conflicts.
Wars are the way we get what we want.
Wars are the way we get the populace stirred up against some perceived external threat.
Unless we bring the war machine under control, there is no reason for us to hope.
“War is the health of the state.” Randolph Bourne.
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few … No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
—James Madison, 1795
The Charter of the United Nations states: "All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state."
--Charter of the United Nations
Why are we talking about it on TCR?
Pentagon is the world’s biggest consumer of fossil fuels.
Plus, the purpose of our military (arguably) is to preserve our unfair advantage on the world stage, whereby we can continue to consume 25% of the world’s resources.
Consumption takes a lot of fossil fuels and is therefore a major cause of global warming.
War involves important questions about how we are governed and by whom we are governed. Climate involves important questions about how we are governed and by whom we are governed.