A close look at the contribution of military spending to climate change. This was written for The Intercept by the journalist Murtaza Hussain, largely based on the writings of Rabindranath Tagore and a recent report from the Watson Institute at Brown University. The latter reveals that the US Department of Defense is “the world’s largest institutional user of petroleum and correspondingly, the single largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world.” Tagore died in 1941 but his remarkable insights are still very much alive.
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–Link to the Watson report:
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Our obsession with clothing has an oversized impact on climate and the environment (Unearthed). The extravagance of “fast fashion” is just part of the whole picture. “Looking beyond textiles production to the environmental impact of clothes washing and how clothes are discarded conjures an even more bleak image:an annual CO2e footprint of 3.3 billion tonnes — equal to 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.” The article has a full assortment of other troublesome statistics.
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A new report covers the destructive nature of government subsidies to agriculture and how they could be redirected (The Guardian). The report was produced by a coalition of research groups, and is quite comprehensive. Of subsidies totaling at least $700 billion per year only 1% of funds are used to benefit the environment and most do real harm. Recommendations for change are clearly spelled out.
–The report is available in several formats: https://www.foodandlandusecoalition.org/global-report/
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An update on the rapid loss of ice on the Tibetan Plateau, the world’s “third pole” (The Guardian). A quarter of its ice has been lost since 1970. An upcoming IPCC report “will warn that up to two-thirds of the region’s remaining glaciers are on track to disappear by the end of the century…..One reason for the rapid ice loss is that the Tibetan plateau, like the other two poles, is warming at a rate up to three times as fast as the global average, by 0.3C per decade.
–Most of the plateau, which contains a vast ice sheet, extends well beyond the better-known range of high peaks. Here is a link to a topographical map—really interesting:
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Responses to Jonathan Franzen’s essay in The New Yorker (see CL #1506, Sept. 9) have often been quite emotional—this one by Carl Safina is more sober (Medium). (It includes a link to one of the emotional ones.) Safina’s reaction suggests that he gave Franzen the careful reading it deserved. (In case you missed it a week ago, do take this second chance. You might also want to read Safina’s wonderful books about how animals think and feel.)
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Results of a new poll showing how Americans feel about climate change (Washington Post). “Nearly 4 in 10 now say climate change is a “crisis,” up from less than a quarter five years ago…..Though Americans are increasingly worried about climate change, fewer than 4 in 10 say they believe that tackling the problem will require them to make “major sacrifices.” And most are unwilling to pay for it out of their own pockets.”
Carl