Opinion | U.S. Militarism's Toxic, Planet-Killing Impact on Climate Policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : America lags far behind Europe on renewable energy.
54% : But his exclusive new military alliance with the U.K. and Australia, and his request for a further increase in military spending to escalate a dangerous arms race with China that the United States started in the first place, reveal just how far Biden has to go to live up to his own rhetoric, on diplomacy as well as on climate change.
48% : On climate change, the infrastructure bill includes only $10 billion per year for conversion to green energy, an important but small step that will not reverse our current course toward a catastrophic future.
46% : From the lack of universal healthcare to levels of child poverty that would be unacceptable in other wealthy countries, our government's under-investment in everything else is the inevitable result of these skewed priorities, which leave America struggling to get by on what is left over after the U.S. military bureaucracy has raked off the lion's share -- or should we say the "generals' share"? -- of the available resources.
46% : Investments in a Green New Deal must be bookended by corresponding reductions in the military budget if we are to correct our government's perverted and destructive priorities in any lasting way.
41% : While the Democrats have been better at "listening to the scientists," let's not forget that, while Europe was replacing fossil fuels and nuclear plants with renewable energy, the Obama administration was unleashing a fracking boom to switch from coal-fired power plants to new plants running on fracked gas.

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