Tell our Members of Congress and Biden: Global Warming & NDAA: Audit Pentagon Emissions
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For our Representatives:
Global warming is a crucial national-defense issue and the Pentagon is the single largest polluter on the planet. It's estimated that the activities of the US military pump more greenhouse gasses into our air than the total output of 140 nations combined. We strongly urge you to support representatives Huffman and Raskin's NDAA Amendment #667, which requires the Pentagon to provide a full accounting of its greenhouse gas emissions as a first step towards reducing them.
For our Senators
Global warming is a crucial national-defense issue and the Pentagon is the single largest polluter on the planet. It's estimated that the activities of the US military pump more greenhouse gasses into our air than the total output of 140 nations combined. Representatives Huffman and Raskin have submitted Amendment #667 to the House NDAA, requiring that the Pentagon provide a full accounting of its greenhouse gas emissions as a first step towards reducing them. We strongly urge you to include a similar provision in the Senate NDAA.
For President Biden:
Global Warming is a crucial national-defense issue and the Pentagon is the single largest polluter on the planet. It's estimated that the activities of the US military pump more greenhouse gasses into our air than the total output of 140 nations combined. Representatives Huffman and Raskin have submitted Amendment #667 to the House NDAA, requiring that requires the Pentagon to provide a full accounting of its greenhouse gas emissions as a first step towards reducing them. We strongly urge you to support their amendment and insist that the final NDAA include an audit of greenhouse gas emissions.
Background
At the beginning of his administration, President Biden declared: "The climate crisis is the existential challenge of our time. A warming planet endangers Americans and people around the world—risking food and water supplies, public health, and infrastructure and our national security." And in an Executive Order, he put the climate crisis “at the center of United States foreign policy and national security."
The US military is the biggest institutional polluter on the planet. Each year it increases the already large sums it is spending to protect itself and its installations from the environmental havoc of climate change. But it is taking no significant action to reduce its own emission of the greenhouse gasses that cause global warming. That's like firefighters sensibly trying to protect themselves from the flames but then pouring gasoline on the fire rather than trying to put it out.
Almost 60 percent of all discretionary federal spending is devoted to national security and defense. Those expenditures, and the policies they implement, are controlled by the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The first step in reducing Pentagon greenhouse emissions is to require an audit to identify them. That audit can then form the basis for slowing global warming by reducing Pentagon pollution.
References
Climate action cannot wait — support Rep. Raskin’s NDAA amendment, Win Without War, 7/23
House Armed Services NDAA Markup Again Fails Our Collective Security,. Win Without War, 6/22/23
Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Biden, January 27, 2021