EMMAE Mission Statement: End Military Madness Against the Earth (EMMAE) is an action group of Women Against Military Madness. EMMAE's purpose is to raise awareness of the harm done by the U.S. military to the environment and thus to all life, and to take action to help reverse destructive U.S. military activity that contributes to the climate crisis and environmental collapse worldwide.
The climate crisis is the greatest threat facing humanity, along with the threat of nuclear war, and the U.S. military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information goes almost entirely unreported. The U.S. is the greatest polluter of fossil fuel of any country in the world. Recent analysis has also shown that major water pollution is also connected to militarism.
The major groups working on climate crisis do not include the pollution by the military in their analyses of the climate crisis or in their activism. Nor are they likely to include the effects of militarism on the climate in their analyses or activism anytime soon.
In our society and culture militarism touches us in endless ways, being intricately linked to the most important issues of our day: climate crisis, environmental degradation, endless war, nuclear war, and more, as well as to the U.S. budget with the billions of dollars the U.S. spends to maintain a global empire, with US bases that are the source of water pollution worldwide including in the U.S.
WAMM’s End Military Madness Against the Earth Committee is looking for members interested in educating and acting around the issue of climate crisis, the environment, making the connections to U.S. militarism.
Please contact WAMM if you are interested by calling 612.827.5364 or email general@wamm.me.
What are Americans taught to think about overseas military bases?
—Will Griffin, The Peace Report
