Pentagon climate crimes documented
By Lisa Savage
Along the way in my development as an antiwar organizer, I began to think about a strategy shift from “wars for empire are morally wrong” (which propaganda prevents most in the U.S. from understanding) to “the U.S. cannot afford wars for empire.” After the crash of 2008 my target audience — U.S.ians who could be persuaded to oppose wars and militarism — was struggling economically. Still, as we waged the Bring Our War $$ Home campaign, I continued to notice that younger people mostly were not interested in resisting U.S. wars.
Here’s what they were concerned about and active around: climate crisis.
It was about this time I learned that the Kyoto protocols exempted military emissions from being counted in a nation’s total. Because the atmosphere is patriotic? (Incidentally, this presaged the triumph of politics over scientific reasoning that the U.S. is experiencing on many fronts today.)
I compiled reports and research in English about the harms to climate of the U.S. military at a website I called Maine Natural Guard. Many signed a pledge to help connect the dots between “security” via warplanes and climate crisis. When I heard that Abby Martin of Empire Files was preparing a documentary on this subject, I gave a little seed money to the film “Earth’s Greatest Enemy.”
Now I’m excited to have helped organize a showing of the film next month in Brunswick, Maine.
Tickets are available on the Eveningstar Cinema website.
Tickets are free (must register in advance) but donations at the event will be welcome. We expect a full house so reserve your tix early if you plan to attend.
We’re excited for the opportunity to zoom with producer/director Abby Martin following the screening.
Hope to see you there!
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