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IRAQ WAR: Death by Anarchy and Global Warming

We must bring our troops home from Iraq now if we hope to win the war on Global Warming.

New research finds the War in Iraq has already added significant doom to the planet by injecting billions of tons of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) into the earth's atmosphere.

With the Pentagon currently holding the record as the largest single consumer of fossil fuels on earth there is little chance that current international efforts to stop the catastrophic consequences of climate change will be effective.

Sobering new estimates report up to 50% of the US economy is now connected to military activity.  But a growing reliance on a "permanent war economy" could brand America as an international "climate criminal", particularly among western nations who continue to make huge sacrifices to deploy green energy only to see the US squander it by ignoring the Kyoto mandate to - instead - engage in dangerous releases of GHG's in a non-stop military pursuit of dwindling oil resources.

America's toxic dependence on a war economy thrives only when the final product results in destruction and a hyper-release of GHG's.  But there's a troubling reluctance to discuss the implications of how our metastasizing war economy contributes to the global terror of rapid climate change.  

Increasingly, other nations regard our economy as belligerent to the urgent mandate to rescue our environment by lowering carbon emissions.  But continuing a game of Global Warming brinksmanship could guarantee an abrupt end to America's energy arrogance when nations unite to undermine America's war economy through sanctions, boycotts and huge international law suits.

Any serious proposal to curb America's contribution to Global Warming should include an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq followed by a complete transition of America's war industry to a permanent, peacetime economy.
On Democracy in jeopardy posted 2 years, 6 months ago 3 Responses