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26: Ben Neimark - Militarism and Environmental Destruction

Global Governance Futures: Imperfect Utopias or Bust

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The Only Way to Cool Off the Furnace Is to Shutter Large Sections of the Machine

The only way to really respect planetary limits is to stop the insatiable possible growth within a linear, extractive, non renewable economy. It doesn't seem currently that policy makers are particularly receptive to these ideas but i suppose it's important that the case continues to be made. And we have had some tracton, again, a bit more limited in terms of scope and goals, with military missions gap work. Ah, we've had some, you know, parliamentary questions being asked about the uks reporting on military missions,. The potential for getting those missions reported annually, and then moving slowly toward some sort of targets.

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