Sharon Houkema

“... the Western way of making war, its deep integration in the industrial system, the way in which the military are embedded in research and development, all underlie the argument of the present chapter that the Anthropocene is also (and perhaps above all) a Thanatocene.” -The Shock of the Anthropocene, Bonneuil and Fressoz

Armed forces around the world - including US military - will no longer be automatically excluded from including their carbon emissions under national reductions targets

..., the single largest producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world.4

Het RIVM heeft in drie maanden tijd meer dan duizend vragen gekregen van onder anderen (ex-)medewerkers van Defensie, letselschadeadvocaten en vakbonden over de kankerverwekkende verf chroom-6.

Brochure 1961

Photo © Edward Barber. "On 12 December 1982, some 30,000 women marched arm in arm onto Greenham Common in Berkshire, aligning themselves along the entire length of the nine-mile long fence that surrounded the Royal Air Force station.Standing against a backdrop of ribbons in the shape of peace signs threaded through the barbed wire, they protested proposed government plans to turn the green into a US nuclear cruise missile base.

"...the weapons and the weather are twisted together, a wire across time, the long fuse to an ongoing debate about the credibility of science, the fate of the Earth, and the nature of uncertainty."

For three decades starting in 1984, the George C. Marshall Institute was a nonprofit conservative think tank in the United States focusing on science and public policy issues, initially mostly in the area of defense policy. Since the late 1980s, the Institute put forward environmental skepticism views, and in particular had disputed mainstream scientific opinion on climate change. The organization was named after World War II military leader and statesman George C. Marshall. [source…

Brandstof transportleiding tracé P19 met daarin het ‘HIGH PRESSURE PUMPING STATION' 5VEP. 5VEP werd gebouwd in 1957/1958. Bron: Defensie Pijpleiding Organisatie

"Marshall Plan aid for oil preserved markets for US oil companies and shaped Western Europe’s energy use patterns and its relations with the United States and the oil-producing nations, especially those in the Middle East." - David S. Painter

Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrYVideo uploaded by aConcernedHuman. Rights to the video belongs to Isao...

Foto door Willem Tiemens van éen van de pompmotoren in het Booster Station, waarmee de druk op de brandstofleidingen werd gereguleerd.