Environmental security/ Various poisons of war
A
major motivation behind some wars is the desire to control resources that
poison the earth, especially oil and gas. That fact, often disguised, should be
faced by those of us concerned over the earth's future.
The
wars are not to protect us but to endanger us, by the
generation of animosity and by the destruction of our planet. The production of
the world's largest, most wasteful military ever is not a safety measure in
case a good war comes along, but exactly what Eisenhower warned it would be, a
generator of wars. T
he
$1 trillion the United States dumps into the war machine each year is needed for urgent
environmental protection. And the war preparations spending does not enrich us;
it impoverishes us while concentrating wealth away from places like Gibsland.
That's
a lot of downsides for an institution whose main function is to kill lots of innocent people while stripping away our civil liberties.
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