Week 10: Climate Change and the Governance, Militarization and Security Crises in the Anthropocene

<aside> 💡 As someone whose major isn't in environmental policy, this week’s readings, as usual, really opened my eyes to the many forms that environmental injustice can take on. In Koshgarian, Siddique, and Steichen’s reading, they bring to light the American institutions who stand to profit from war (domestic and international) and how the amount of U.S. militarized spending could have been reinvested “to meet critical challenges that have gone neglected for the last 20 years”. It’s truly devastating that the climate crisis isn’t given the same urgency but it’s also not surprising. As the convergence of crises is such a complex problem to tackle, it is truly life-saving to empower the alternatives that currently exist and keep the resistance against capitalism and the climate regime alive for future generations.

If you could redirect U.S. military funding to other critical areas now, what key issues would you reinvest $21.02 trillion into?

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