A curated selection of books, articles and websites on the nexus between the climate crisis and militarism.
To suggest an addition to this list, please email climate@veteransforpeace.org.
Read our statement: The Ukraine Crisis and the Recent IPCC Report
Books
- Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller
- Understanding the War Industry by Christian Sorensen
- Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War by Erik Edstrom
- What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Veterans For Peace Advisory Board member Jane Fonda
- The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism by Barry Sanders
- The Militarization of Indian Country by Winona LaDuke
- Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall
On the Climate Crisis:
- Climate Change: The Greatest National Security Threat to the United States
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on climate
- Atmospheric CO2 levels by NOAA
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report
- Invest in Climate Solutions Now or Pay the Price for Inaction Later
- Ukraine invasion: rapid overview of environmental issues
- IPCC Report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
On Militarism:
- Definition of militarism
- Veterans For Peace Statement on Military Spending under Biden Administration
- Congress Plans Climate Resiliency - But Mostly for the Military
- Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War (Brown University Study)
- What Price "Defense"? America's Nearly $1.3 Trillion National Security Budget Isn't Making Us Any Safer
- We Can't Fight the Climate Crisis Without Fighting the Military-Industrial Complex
- Climate Chaos: Confronting the Real Existential Threat
- Mapping Militarism Interactive Map by World BEYOND War
Climate Change and National Security
*Note: These documents do not represent Veterans For Peace's positions on the climate crisis and its relationship to National Security. However, they are important for showing the current state of mainstream discourse, and policies being developed and funded by the U.S. government in its executive and legislative branches.
- Presidential Views of Climate Change
- One Pager: "Climate Risks to America's National Security" from the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis Report (2020)
- Senate Democrats Report on the Climate Crisis, "The Case for Climate Action" (2020)
Articles and Interviews by VFP Members:
- What is the U.S. Military doing with the Climate Crisis? by CCMP Steering Committee Member Jim Rine
- Climate Justice and the Need for Peace by CCMP Steering Committee Member Janet Weil
- Veterans target US military's outsized impact on the climate crisis by CCMP Steering Committee Member Cindy Piester
- How the War Machine is Repurposing Veterans by CCMP member Ryan Tamoush
- Podcast featuring CCMP member Marcy Winograd - CODEPINK Radio: The Link Between Militarism and the Climate Crisis (start around 32:22)
- Podcast: Interview with CCMP member Steve Morse - "I was trying to put the army on trial"
- Talk World Radio: Veterans For Peace Take on Climate Collapse with CCMP Steering Committee Member Vince Dijanich
- An Earth Day Wish: Demilitarize from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo by Marcy Winograd
- OpEd: Earth Day 2021 by Gary Butterfield
- The Link Between Climate Change and Militarism by David Collins, VFP UK
- Radio Interview on Militarism and the Climate Crisis on KZFR (starts at 33:12) with CCMP Steering Committee Member Vince Dijanich