The U.S. military is the largest institutional consumer of petroleum. It emits more greenhouse gases than 100 countries combined. Just one of the military’s jets, the B-52 Stratofortress, consumes about as much fuel in an hour as the average car driver uses in seven years.
But whenever the climate spotlight lands on the U.S. military, it is used as yet another excuse to increase defense spending, instead of the no-brainer that we need to stop spending on the Pentagon’s polluting pet projects and start spending more on tackling climate change.
Just two weeks ago, we piled in to help block a sneaky and absurd attempt to ADD $50 billion more for the Pentagon in the infrastructure bill. But we won and forced that back door closed, so now hawks and weapons manufacturers are pushing to pile this massive increase into the already sky-high $750 BILLION National Defense Authorization Act. It’s appalling. That’s why we’re teaming up with a small, but powerful, cohort of lawmakers and partners to stop them — and you can fuel this fight with a donation today.