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The Pentagon, Climate Change & War (Highland UMC)
January 17, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
There are, obviously, many reasons people of faith and conscience adopt Creation Care practices. But to consider Creation Care from the (somewhat alien-seeming) perspective of national security is to recognize an additional value: its life-affirming practices will contribute profoundly to peace on Earth.
For years the military has openly stated that climate change is a “threat multiplier.” From sea-level rise threatening U.S. bases to extreme weather events and food and water scarcity that destroy livelihoods and communities, the results are political instability, increasing numbers of climate refugees, and even war.
Please join us for this forum on zoom featuring Prof. Neta Crawford, the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford in the U.K., as it takes up this topic with a focus on the Pentagon, the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter. Tracing the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy, Prof. Crawford calls for a re-conceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels.
Prof. Crawford is the author of The Pentagon, Climate Change and War, Argument and Change in World Politics (winner of the best book award from the American Political Science Association), and Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post -9/11 Wars. She also co-directs the Costs of War Project of the Watson Institute at Brown University.
This Zoom event will not be recorded so please join us on 1/17/23!
Co-sponsored by Highland United Methodist Church Micah 6:8 Team, North Carolina Peace Action, Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle, Campaign Nonviolence, and Veterans for Peace.
Free
