{"id":61028,"date":"2021-12-21T07:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61028"},"modified":"2021-12-21T07:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:20:29","slug":"veterans-target-us-militarys-outsized-impact-on-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61028","title":{"rendered":"Veterans target US military\u2019s outsized impact on the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veterans target US military\u2019s outsized impact on the climate crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where they networked, forged alliances and made clear their opposition to the status quo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been 25 COPs before this one, and every year leaders come to these climate negotiations with an array of new pledges, commitments and promises and as each COP comes and goes, emissions continue to rise,\u201d Ugandan delegate Vanessa Nakate\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cI hope you can appreciate that we may be skeptical when the largest delegation here \u2026 does not belong to a country but instead belongs to the fossil fuel industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

There were in fact\u00a0more than 500 delegates<\/a>\u00a0in attendance at the conference with ties to the fossil fuel industry, or twice the number of indigenous delegates.<\/p>\n

Scientists from within the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, acting out of fear that their reports would be watered down,\u00a0leaked<\/a>\u00a0part of the IPCC report months ahead of schedule. The report provided critical information about the huge energy consumption of wealthy populations and the need for them to adopt lifestyle changes in order to avoid civilizational collapse.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Greenpeace UK\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that more than 30,000 leaked files show corporations and nations, including petrostate Saudi Arabia and OPEC, pressured the IPCC to focus on potential technological solutions and exclude language calling for phasing out fossil fuels. In the end, COP26\u2019s\u00a0weakened language<\/a>\u00a0called for a \u201cphase-down of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies\u201d rather than the \u201cphase-out of fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Veterans target US military\u2019s outsized impact on the climate crisis With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint. More than 100,000 people protested the United Nations Climate Change Convention, or COP26, in Glasgow last month, where they networked, forged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[32326,141,1053,32040,32327,5161,440,524,11226,6861,862],"class_list":["post-61028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-cindy-piester","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-crisis","tag-cop-26","tag-fellowship-of-reconciliation","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc","tag-militarism","tag-us-pentagon","tag-veterans","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61029,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61028\/revisions\/61029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}