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Climate Change “May Put World at War”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell April 23rd, 2008 in Climate Change, War, climate change impactsClimate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading think tank has warned.
The Royal United Services Institute, based in the UK, said a tenfold increase in research spending, comparable to the amount spent on the Apollo space programme, will be […]
MEND Threatens War
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell April 21st, 2008 in African Oil, US foreign policy, War, violenceMany years ago, before he died in a plane crash, the Nigerian academic Claude Ake warned about the consequences of the militarisation of commerce. Over a decade later, the spiral of violence concerning oil continues. Ake’s painful warning has come true.
As America conducts more naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Guinea, the Movement for […]
Iraq War Fuel Costs Soar
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell April 3rd, 2008 in Gas Prices, Iraq, WarSo you think you’re being ripped off by Big Oil? Spare a thought for the poor old American military in Iraq that is burning fuel at a staggering rate.
Military units pay an average of $3.23 a gallon for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, some $88 a day per service member in Iraq, according to a […]
Follow the Oil Money
0 Comments Published by Trina Zahller March 24th, 2008 in Iraq, Oil, Politics, Separate Oil and State, War, oil subsidies, protestsLast week, on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War, hundreds of people stood with Oil Change International in the streets in front of the American Petroleum Institute demanding a Separation of Oil & State. They know, just as we do, that oil was the central motivation of the war in Iraq, that oil […]
Iraq = 25 million new cars, and counting
10 Comments Published by Steve Kretzmann March 19th, 2008 in Climate Change, Separate Oil and State, WarOn the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, a new report from Oil Change International, entitled A Climate of War (pdf) quantifies both the greenhouse gas emissions of the Iraq War and the opportunity costs involved in fighting war rather than climate change. Here are some facts on the war and warming:
Projected total US […]
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