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40: I would MANDATE MILITARY CARBON REPORTING with Dr Benjamin Neimark
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Climate and War: Understanding the Intersection of the Military Sector and the Climate & Nature Crisis
This episode delves into the challenging topic of carbon emissions and other environmental impacts of peacetime and wartime military activities. From the impact of burning fossils fuels, construction of military bases and the use of concrete, a high carbon-emitter material, in the construction of military bases as well as defensive and offensive structures. The discussion with Dr Benjamin Neimark, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, is wide-ranging and urgent, particularly in the face of hot wars in Ukraine and the Gaza, Sudan and Congo genocides. Dr Neimark discusses his work in the wider context of the lack of mandatory carbon emissions reporting by the military sector to the IPCC, and the ambitious goal of his team to bridge the military emissions data gap. The ultimate hope is to encourage and foster diverse coalitions between the climate & environmental, social justice and peace movements.
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Dr Benjamin Neimark on Linkedin
Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture by Benjamin Neimark
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Chapters
1. Pre-title tease: Mobilisation vs organisation (00:00:00)
2. Introduction & scene setting (00:01:03)
3. Balancing Climate Focus Amid Human Suffering (00:06:52)
4. Facing Criticism and Weathering the Storm (00:09:38)
5. The Military's Environmental Impact (00:12:29)
6. The Great Green Fleet Initiative (00:18:05)
7. Current US administration and US military climate research (00:18:59)
8. Concrete Impacts: Military use of concrete and climate impact (00:25:43)
9. Where does the military sector rank as a carbon emittor? (00:37:47)
10. What is the hope for the research? (00:41:40)
11. How can nature and conservation NGOs play a role here? (00:44:10)
12. Eco Precarity and Military Impact (00:46:32)
13. If You Ruled the world what would you do? (00:51:04)
14. Concluding Thoughts and Reflections (00:52:57)
15. Outro and audience questions (00:53:40)
16. Kwame Ture - mobilisation vs organisation (00:55:50)
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