Explore Issues

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
• IPCC Report: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
• Setting the Precedent for a Peace Industrial Policy
• [Book] What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Veterans For Peace Advisory Board member Jane Fonda
• [Book] Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall
• Talk World Radio: Veterans For Peace Take on Climate Collapse with CCMP Steering Committee Member Vince Dijanich

On Militarism:

• Weapons Industry's $10 Million Investment in Congress Could Yield 450,000% Return
• Free School Meal Waivers Set to Expire as Senate Pushes $857 Billion Military Budget
• 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
• The military's contribution to climate change
• [Book] Understanding the War Industry by Christian Sorensen
• [Book] Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War by Erik Edstrom
• [Book] The Militarization of Indian Country by Winona LaDuke
• How the War Machine is Repurposing Veterans by CCMP member Ryan Tamoush
• Diplomatic Solutions by Ian Mooney
• [Podcast] Interview with CCMP member Steve Morse - "I was trying to put the army on trial"

On Militarism and Climate Crisis:

• US veterans and allies set up "watch tower" outside the UN to observe efforts to rein in military carbon emissions
• Report by Perspectives Climate Group, which was commissioned by Tipping Point North South: Military And Conflict-Related Emissions: Kyoto To Glasgow And Beyond
• Miramar Air Show Fuels the Climate Crisis – Boycott It! - LTE by CCMP Steering Committee Member Gary Butterfield
• Two arrested during Rockville protest against U.S. spending on war in Ukraine
• Redirect defense money to other pressing issues - LTE by CCMP Steering Committee Member Steve Morse
• The U.S. pledged billions to fight climate change. Then came the Ukraine war
• The Ukraine War's Collateral Damage
• [Book] Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller
• [Book] The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism by Barry Sanders
• [Book] The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
• AGW should compel NATO to bargain with Putin while supporting Ukraine by CCMP Steering Committee Member Jim Rine
• [Podcast] Veterans for Peace with Jim Rine of the VFP Climate Project on Militarism and the Climate
• Climate Justice and the Need for Peace by CCMP Steering Committee Member Janet Weil
• What is the U.S. Military doing with the Climate Crisis? by CCMP Steering Committee Member Jim Rine
• Veterans target US military's outsized impact on the climate crisis by CCMP Steering Committee Member Cindy Piester
• Podcast featuring CCMP member Marcy Winograd - CODEPINK Radio: The Link Between Militarism and the Climate Crisis (start around 32:22)
• The Link Between Climate Change and Militarism by David Collins, VFP UK 

Websites

• Addicted to War: Climate Change
• Costs of War
• National Priorities Project
• The Military Emissions Gap
• World Beyond War: Climate Change