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Patrick Bigger

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We don't get to climate justice without an internationalism that takes war and militarism seriously. This essay looks at three categories of state violence (or violence by reactionaries in service of states) and how they intersect with climate.

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Patrick Bigger's avatar Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social
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1st, there is the ongoing violent geopolitics to secure fossil fuels and the climate impacts of militaries themselves; militaries are responsible for abt 5.5% of global carbon emissions and military force by the US in particular is still the guarantor of the global fossil economy

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