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
View the CCMP Statement on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan
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
VFP Member Dan Shea at the youth-led
Climate Strike for Fridays For Future
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:
- 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