[GPSCC-chat] Fw: Pentagon's Huge Role in Climate Change

[Caroline Yacoub]

--- On Thu, 5/13/10, Rosie Yacoub <rayacoub at yahoo.com> wrote:


I think this could be the basis of a good new brochure on Peace. Anybody want to mke it?
Caroline
 

From: Rosie Yacoub <rayacoub at yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: Pentagon's Huge Role in Climate Change
To: "Caroline Yacoub" <carolineyacoub at att.net>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 4:30 AM








--- On Tue, 5/11/10,  - as the "hole into hell" spews oil into the Gulf of Mexico - I am making time to share this generally ignored information with you. 


        Overall, there is disturbingly little (well, none!) discussion of the environmentally toxic impacts of war.  Obviously, war is bad for those directly killed, injured, displaced, impoverished, and orphaned.  And many folks have read or heard about the skyrocketing cancer rates in Iraq and parts of the former Yugoslavia, apparently due to the terrible and long-lasting effects of depleted uranium-clad weapons.  But there is so much more, including the many heavy metals and other toxins that poison the land from exploded bombs, rockets, and ordnance of all kinds.
        Here is a big part of the "so much more":  the Pentagon's impacts on catastrophic climate change.  As the article linked below says -


        By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products   
        and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international
        climate agreements.
 and -
        Even according to rankings in the 2006 CIA World Factbook, only 35 countries (out of
        210 in the world) consume more oil per day than the Pentagon.
 and -
        At the time of the Kyoto Accords negotiations, the U.S. demanded as a provision of
        signing that all of its military operations worldwide and all operations it participates in
        with the U.N. and/or NATO be completely exempted from measurement or reductions.


        This article goes on to report how these exemptions - and, indeed, the blanket exemption mentioned above - have been rolled into the Copenhagen guidelines.  From there the article touches briefly on other war-related poisonings, such as the long-term effects of Agent Orange in Viet Nam. 
        It's call-in week to protest the war in Afghanistan - details below.  It's long past time to rein in the Pentagon!
        Here's the link for "Pentagon's Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes":
http://coto2.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/pentagons-role-in-global-catastrophe-add-climate-havoc-to-war-crimes/


Call in!
        Call 202-224-3121. Tell them it is time to reduce the number of troops in Afghanistan, not increase them. It is time to stop pouring billions of borrowed dollars into a failed and unecessary war - dollars the U.S. needs to borrow at a time of record debt.

Also ask your elected representatives to support H.R. 5015, Redeployment of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan, and its sister bill in the Senate, S. 3197. These bills would require the President to provide a plan and timetable for "the safe, orderly, and expeditious redeployment of US troops from Afghanistan."

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