Sustainable Earth Council – Earth Day 2025 Statement
Our world is under the ultimate threat of extinction by climate change and the destruction of our environment. The main factor is the plunder of our natural resources. Attempts are often made to blame the crisis on the industrialization of developing countries like India and China, or on everyday habits of average workers. However, the fact stands that the two main culprits behind this situation are the U.S. military and large multinational corporations.
The U.S. military, not working people, has the largest carbon footprint of any single organization on the planet and higher than that of over 140 countries. On top of the U.S. military’s extreme greenhouse gas emissions, it also has a track record of using and supplying foreign regimes with cluster bombs, depleted uranium, and biological weapons, all of which can make areas where they are deployed hazardous for decades. The U.S. military could have its budget reduced by 70% and the U.S. would still be spending more on its military than any other country on Earth.
Fixing the crisis will additionally require economic planning not for the profits of corporations, but for the needs of many. Corporate-monopoly economic systems disproportionately contribute to pollution by placing greed and profits above nature, people, and our planet. This plays out through lobbying at all levels of government to implement and preserve laws that have the result of higher CO2 emissions. These include, but are not limited to, defunding or refusing to install public transit, wasteful practices by tech monopolies, putting tariffs on green technologies, and the misuse or abuse of natural resources without planning, resulting in damage to both human and non-human communities. From loud and wasteful bitcoin mining centers to the Pacific garbage patch, the destruction profit-motivated systems inflict upon the environment is clear.
With science and centralized economic planning, backed by the power of the federal government, we can mitigate future catastrophic effects of climate change. The Sustainable Earth Council calls for a permanent end to the use and export of depleted uranium, cluster bombs, and biological weapons by the U.S., a massive cut to the U.S. military budget, stricter regulations on industry, and a nationwide government initiative to expand public transit and green energy (including carbon free nuclear power).
Sustainable Earth Council
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