Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-convergence-of-catastrophes-wars.html
CALLS FOR AWARE AND RESPONSIVE CITIZENS
Climate Awareness: Ireland and USA.
Neta C. Crawford. The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War.
CLIMATE AWARENESS: IRELAND AND USA
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (3-7-24).
The Irish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication to help them conduct a nationally representative survey on public climate change awareness. A few highlights with comparisons with USA:
· 95% of the Irish people think climate change is happening. By contrast, our latest national survey in the U.S. found that 72% of Americans think global warming is happening. (Note: The term “climate change” was used in Ireland, while “global warming” was used in the U.S.)
· 80% of the Irish public says that “most scientists think climate change is happening.” By contrast, 53% of Americans say the same.
· 81% of the Irish public is worried about climate change. In the U.S., 65% of Americans are worried.
· 78% of the Irish public says they discuss climate change occasionally or often with their families and friends. In the U.S., only 35% of Americans do.
· 74% of the Irish public says they hear about climate change in the media “at least once a week.” By contrast, in the U.S., only 28% do.
· 79% of the Irish public says climate change should be a very high or high priority for the national government. In the U.S., 56% of registered voters say the same.
Conclusion: Because so many of the US public is in denial of reality, US Ecology organizations need to give climate a higher priority.
Neta C. Crawford . The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War:Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions. 2022.
How the Pentagon became the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter and why it’s not too late to break the link between national security and fossil fuel consumption. (This book was reviewed more fully previously in CMM April 22, 2023, and see related CMM, and Convergence of War and Warming Anthology #1, March 7, 2024.)
Examining the idea of climate change as a “threat multiplier” in national security, she argues that the United States faces more risk from climate change than from lost access to Persian Gulf oil—or from most military conflicts. The most effective way to cut military emissions, Crawford suggests, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy and reduce the size and operations of the military.
END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #169, MARCH 11, 2024