Climate Change and Global Warming: The Hidden Carbon Emissions of War
Climate change and global warming cannot be addressed honestly while the world's largest source of hidden carbon emissions—military activity—remains largely excluded from climate accountability. Wars, military expansion, and consumerism arise from the same psychological drive for domination and endless consumption. Unless the Paris Agreement includes military emissions and humanity addresses the inner causes of conflict, every effort to combat climate change will remain incomplete.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji, I was going through the article that you have written for “The Pioneer" this week. It's titled “The Climate Cost of the War Machine,” written in the context of the ongoing war. Some of the facts that I checked and read in the article were quite shocking for me, so I just wanted to discuss with you, regarding some of the main points that I thought I wanted more clarity on.
In the beginning itself, it says the world's militaries combined account for an estimated 5.5% of global greenhouse emissions. That is nearly three times as much as the world's commercial flights emit.
Acharya Prashant: Staggering stag.
Questioner: Just 2%.
