Washington, D.C. – The U.S. military is the largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter in the world. At a time when the United Nations has pulled the emergency alarm, warning us that we have entered an era of global water bankruptcy and irreversible long-term consequences are quickly approaching from the rapid rise of global temperatures- one thing is clear. War is not the answer.
We condemn the United States and Israel’s preemptive military strikes on Iran today, that fly in the face of international law, human rights, and democracy. If we want to stop the climate crisis and ensure a safe and healthy future for us all we must oppose war and militarism.
The military attacks on Iran are not about peace and democracy, but rather about sowing fear, bloodshed, and despair as the U.S. attempts to further destabilize the region and secure access to profitable natural resources that it wants to control. This is not surprising given recent foreign policy actions taken by the Trump administration in Venezuela and Cuba, and our
ongoing history of engaging in coups, occupations, and endless wars to control resource-rich countries, especially for oil and gas. Just since 2025, the Trump administration has carried out military actions in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.
We stand with the frontline communities of the world, and the peoples of Iran and the region, who are calling for an immediate end to these airstrikes and all military attacks in the region. War and increased militarization accelerate climate chaos and we oppose them in the strongest of terms.
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