Was bedeutet das globale Wettrüsten für Klimaaktion?
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/what-does-the-global-arms-race-mean-for-climate-action
Was bedeutet das globale Wettrüsten für Klimaaktion?
https://www.tni.org/en/publication/what-does-the-global-arms-race-mean-for-climate-action
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If global defence budgets (US $2.2 trn) keep rising ~7 % a year while climate finance stalls, we could blow past 2 °C by 2040. The report models an alternative 2035 scenario: freeze military spend at 2023 levels, divert the growth (~US $200 bn/yr) into grid‑scale storage & green hydrogen. Authors claim that would shave ≈0.15 °C off mid‑century warming. Let’s stress‑test those numbers—what tech mix would best absorb such a cash injection?
It will take a backseat.
Climate change is a major long term threat, with the potential to cause significant damage, but enemy tanks rolling across the frontier is an immediate, obvious, easy to understand by anyone threat that gets instant attention and *just happened* to a mainland European country.
It doesn’t help the case that the worst and earliest impacts of climate change will affect primarily the global south.
We had a quarter century of relative peace, prosperity, and stability, and didn’t use it to invest in climate change.
Now as in the past there are borders that need guarding and warships that need crewing, and that will take priority.