Matilda Malope

Abby Martin: ‘Wars in the Middle East have gone from GENOCIDE to ECOCIDE.’ ‘You look at just the maintenance of a global military empire, the toxification, the dumping, the callous disregard for the environment. That’s just to maintain the arsenal of military equipment because of the cleaning of the engine parts, the pointless missions of flying these Boeing Pegasuses, which are basically mobile gas stations around, just to keep these machines mission ready. We're not even talking, we don't know the application of the actual weaponry. We can't even begin to quantify the impact on the environment that war causes. One just has to look at what is happening across the Middle East today. It is an ecocide in front of our eyes. Genocide turned ecocide. We see the black soot, the rain, the intentional targeting of oil infrastructure and civilian oil depots and ships. These are crimes against the environment every single day that are not being held to account. And this isn't even being calculated. This is just part of the mythology of having a military empire, part of that necessity that's dictated to us by the ruling class that we need this global military empire, that in fact it keeps us safe and in fact it's the solution to climate change. There's a complete failure of imagination of how we can solve these problems and they just look to the military, the same force that's protecting the fossil fuel corporations and the same force that has exacerbated the crisis that we're in today.’ —@AbbyMartin, Co-Director of ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’