Missing from the Paris Agreement: the Pentagon's monstrous carbon boot print

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2986576/missing_from_the_paris_agreement_the_pentagons_monstrous_carbon_boot_print.html
Date Written:  2016-01-06
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18624

How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.

Subject Headings

• Climate Change
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Military Activities
• U.S. Military