{"id":659,"date":"2014-10-26T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=659"},"modified":"2014-10-26T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T20:52:47","slug":"combat-vs-climate-the-military-and-climate-security-budgets-compared-ips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared &#8211; IPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org\/combatvsclimate\/\">COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared &#8211; IPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">As the U.S. debates the President\u2019s plan for new military engagement, hundreds of thousands\u00a0converged on New York to urge the world\u2019s nations to take stronger action against the threat of climate change.\u00a0 A new report connects these two issues, and finds that the gap between U.S. spending on traditional instruments of military force and on averting climate catastrophe has narrowed slightly.\u00a0 Between 2008 and 2013, the proportion of security spending on climate change grew from 1% of military spending to 4%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The report argues that a change from 1% to 4% of security spending is not commensurate with the role U.S. military strategy now assigns to climate change: as a major threat to U.S. security. Nor is it remotely sufficient to bring greenhouse gas emissions under control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">The U.S. balance between military and climate security spending compares unfavorably to the record of its nearest \u201cpeer competitor,\u201d China.\u00a0 Although China\u2019s environmental record is unquestionably problematic, it strikes a far better balance than the U.S. in the allocation of its spending on military force and on climate change.\u00a0 Its climate security spending, at $162 billion, nearly equals its military spending, at $188.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Other Key Findings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMBAT VS. CLIMATE: The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared &#8211; IPS. As the U.S. debates the President\u2019s plan for new military engagement, hundreds of thousands\u00a0converged on New York to urge the world\u2019s nations to take stronger action against the threat of climate change.\u00a0 A new report connects these two issues, and finds that the [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,4,5],"tags":[140,141,143,529,837],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-security","tag-military-spending","tag-us-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}