{"product_id":"the-pentagon-climate-change-and-war-isbn-9780262047487","title":"The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pentagon, Climate Change, and War\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the U.S. economy and military together have created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency. This cycle has shaped U.S. military doctrine and, over the past fifty years, has driven the mission to protect access to Persian Gulf oil. Crawford shows that even as the U.S. military acknowledged and adapted to human-caused climate change, it resisted reporting its own greenhouse gas emissions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExamining 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 provocatively, is to rethink U.S. grand strategy, which would enable the United States to reduce the size and operations of the military.Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003eI The Deep Cycle\u003cbr\u003e1 So Hungry, So Thirsty: Coal, Oil, and War 25\u003cbr\u003e2 The Life Blood and the Deep Cycle: Oil and U.S. Military Doctrine Since World War II 65\u003cbr\u003eII The U.S. Military and Climate Change\u003cbr\u003e3 Climate Change Science and the Politics of Counting Military Emissions 103\u003cbr\u003e4 A Guide to U.S. Military and Military-Industrial Emissions since 1975 127\u003cbr\u003eIII U.S. Military Doctrine and National Security Strategy\u003cbr\u003e5 Energy and Climate Security: Finding and Fixing Vulnerabilities 181\u003cbr\u003e6 Climate Change as \"Threat Multiplier\" 203\u003cbr\u003eIV The Way Ahead\u003cbr\u003e7 A Lean Green Fighting Machine? Mitigation Versus Adaption 231\u003cbr\u003e8 The Path to Climate Security 253\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 291\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Estimating U.S. Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions 295\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations 313\u003cbr\u003eNotes 315\u003cbr\u003eIndex 371\"A brilliant guide for how we might effectively confront global warming and is filled with practical measures we can implement along the way.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e– Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“In this important and meticulously researched book, Crawford untangles the complex relationship between the military and its dependence on fossil fuels, warning that the United States faces greater risk from climate change than from lost access to oil—or from most military conflicts.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard University; co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Three Trillion Dollar War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Crawford exposes the self-reinforcing cycle of fossil fuel dependency and vast military deployments to ensure its availability. Without a radical shift in traditional military thinking and clear understanding of ‘ecological security,’ America—indeed the world—will never meet its climate goals.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jerry Brown, Governor of California, 1975–83 and 2011–19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A penetratingly revelatory account of how choices made about industrialization and about militarization feed each other through iterative positive feedbacks that Crawford labels a ‘deep cycle.’  Why aren’t our politicians serious about climate change?  Here is a big reason why.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Henry Shue, University of Oxford; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Pivotal Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Crawford’s careful study provides pathways to decreasing US military spending and reorienting the economy to more economically productive activities; heeding her informed advice could also free us to spend fewer anxious nights worrying about the next war and the next heatwave.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Bill McKibben, Middlebury College; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A uniquely important contribution to national security studies. For the Pentagon, there is no debate about whether climate change exists, but how gravely it will magnify existing threats to security and destabilize human life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jessica Stern, Boston University; author of \u003ci\u003eTerror in the Name of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Project Syndicate Sustainability Book Award, 2023.\u003c\/b\u003eNeta C. Crawford is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and Codirector of the Costs of War Project.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301149364453,"sku":"NP9780262047487","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262047487.jpg?v=1767740919","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-pentagon-climate-change-and-war-isbn-9780262047487","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}