Climate change will have a significant impact on our overall security environment both in the south and in the north. All of his examples have been detailed here at Ecowar. But he says two things: One, the solutions should be political, not military; and two, the military can contribute by lowering CO2 emissions.
Month: October 2009
Bloody Blog Action Day 2009
I did an Ecowar post for Blog Action Day 2008 on poverty but for the 2009 topic on climate change I ended up with a rant on the Danish (COP15 host) government: Something is rotten in the state of COP15 at TH!NK ABOUT IT. Perhaps I “should” have summed up the previous Ecowar and climate…
The military – green or black?
Destroying the Environment Is Also a War Crime [Throughout human history there have been] many deliberate acts to destroy or exploit the natural environment to achieve military goals. In the 5th century BC the retreating Scythians poisoned the water wells in an effort to slow the advancing Persian army. Roman troops razed the city of…
Our mobiles are bleeding
We don’t want to think too much about it. But every time we buy a new gadget we support a mining industry of questionable ethics. In the case of the mines in eastern Congo it is extraordinary brutal. In a time of desperate need for re-forestation to fight climate change, in Congo wide swaths of…