Climate and War: Understanding the Intersection of the Military Sector and the Climate & Nature Crisis

This episode delves into the challenging topic of carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of peacetime and wartime military activities.  From the impact of burning fossils fuels, construction of military bases and the use of concrete, a high carbon-emitter material, in the construction of military bases as well as defensive and offensive structures.  The discussion with Dr Benjamin Neimark, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, is wide-ranging and urgent, particularly in the face of hot wars in Ukraine and the Gaza, Sudan and Congo genocides.  Dr Neimark discusses his work in the wider context of the lack of mandatory carbon emissions reporting by the military sector to the IPCC, and the ambitious goal of his team to bridge the military emissions data gap.  The ultimate hope is to encourage and foster diverse coalitions between the climate & environmental, social justice and peace movements. 

Links & Mentions:

Dr Benjamin Neimark on Linkedin

Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture by Benjamin Neimark

National Security and Climate Change: Behind the U.S. Pursuit of Military Exemptions to the Kyoto Protocol

Resolution (1997) regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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