Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

War-Making as an Environmental Disaster

War-Making as an Environmental Disaster 579453 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796015579453New Labor ForumCollins research-article2015 Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take? New Labor Forum 2015, Vol. 24(2) 25 –30 War-Making as an Copyright © 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Environmental Disaster sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796015579453 nlf.sagepub.com Sheila D. Collins Keywords climate change, military–industrial complex, environmental movement, globalization, trade unions, free market In mid-September 2014, two days after the borderlands of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, largest climate march in history made its way and Somalia has seen increasingly extreme through New York City’s Midtown Manhattan weather patterns—drought and flash flooding— area, President Obama announced that he had which have resulted in a toxic convergence of just launched a heavy airstrike against militants poverty, climate change, failed or failing states, in Syria—in effect, plunging the United States and consequent inter-tribal or religiously infused further into an unending military quagmire in violence. the Middle East. He then proceeded, on the Central and South Asia are other areas that same day, to go to the United Nations to claim are already experiencing the intermixture of he was serious about tackling climate change. extreme climate events with political violence. There was something surreal about the juxtapo- “Read http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

War-Making as an Environmental Disaster

Collins, Sheila D.
New Labor Forum , Volume 24 (2): 6 – May 1, 2015
Download PDF
6 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/sage/war-making-as-an-environmental-disaster-z6wqR2nZqH
Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York
ISSN
1095-7960
eISSN
1557-2978
DOI
10.1177/1095796015579453
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

579453 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796015579453New Labor ForumCollins research-article2015 Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take? New Labor Forum 2015, Vol. 24(2) 25 –30 War-Making as an Copyright © 2015, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Environmental Disaster sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796015579453 nlf.sagepub.com Sheila D. Collins Keywords climate change, military–industrial complex, environmental movement, globalization, trade unions, free market In mid-September 2014, two days after the borderlands of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, largest climate march in history made its way and Somalia has seen increasingly extreme through New York City’s Midtown Manhattan weather patterns—drought and flash flooding— area, President Obama announced that he had which have resulted in a toxic convergence of just launched a heavy airstrike against militants poverty, climate change, failed or failing states, in Syria—in effect, plunging the United States and consequent inter-tribal or religiously infused further into an unending military quagmire in violence. the Middle East. He then proceeded, on the Central and South Asia are other areas that same day, to go to the United Nations to claim are already experiencing the intermixture of he was serious about tackling climate change. extreme climate events with political violence. There was something surreal about the juxtapo- “Read

Journal

New Labor Forum – SAGE

Published: May 1, 2015

There are no references for this article.