Climate Day at DSEI Arms Fair

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The programme for Climate Day is full of interesting and informative talks and speeches on the intersecting issues of the climate and ecological crisis and the arms industry. Speakers will talk on a range of vital topics and how we can act together as the climate movement and anti-arms movement to fight against the destruction. There will also be some singing and banner making!

We will be located near the camp site where support and provisions should be accessible.

20% of all environmental degradation globally is due to military-related activities (Angus, 2016) A 2020 report by Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) and Declassified UK found that the UK military-industrial sector produced the equivalent of 6.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, which was greater than the CO2 emissions of 60 other countries (Parkinson, 2020). The United States’ Department of Defense (DOD) is the world’s largest institutional consumer of petroleum and the world’s largest institutional producer of greenhouse gases (GHG), producing over 3,685 million metric tonnes of CO2 between 1975 and 2018 (Crawford, 2019). Operational energy, or what the DOD defines as “energy required for training, moving, and sustaining military forces and weapons platforms for military operations” (Office of the Assistant Secretary of Sustainment, 2018) accounts for 70% of total US military energy consumption (Crawford, 2019). US military is the single largest institutional emitter of carbon on earth. The military emissions of nation states are all excluded from COP emissions reduction targets. Militarism pollutes in many different ways, from gigantic carbon emissions, to depleted uranium munitions, to heavy metal poisoning from bullets. US military bases dump toxic poisons that cause sky rocketing cancer rates in local populations both in the US and across the world. Only unprecedented cooperation and collaboration on a global scale can address the ecological crises, and militarism is the exact opposite of this. Wars are fought over fossil fuel resources, and fossil fuels power the war machine. Imperialist militarist violence enables the colonial extractivism that is destroying ecosystems all over the world.

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