The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (E.T.)
The U.S. Department of Defense is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. While it has acknowledged concerns about climate change since the late 1950s, and began to plan for climate change impacts on operations and installations in the 1990s, the Defense Department also has worked to keep full reporting of military emissions out of the Kyoto process of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Drawing on the recent book “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War”, this talk will highlight how the U.S. economy and military together created a deep and long-term cycle of economic growth, fossil fuel use, and dependency, and suggest a way to rethink U.S. grand strategy.
About the speaker: Neta C. Crawford is the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the University of Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College. She has authored several books including "Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America’s Post‑9/11 Wars" (Oxford University Press, 2013), and most recently, "The Pentagon, Climate Change and War" (MIT Press, 2022).