The Climate Costs of War and Militaries Can No Longer Be Ignored

Jan 9, 2024 | Doug Weir
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Two decades of international analysis and debate over the relationship between climate change and security has focused on how our rapidly destabilising climate could undermine the security of states. But it has largely ignored how national security choices, such as military spending or warfighting, can have an impact on the climate, and so undermine our collective security.