{"id":8528,"date":"2021-04-09T19:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2021-04-09T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T17:17:55","slug":"military-climate-democracy-buxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/military-climate-democracy-buxton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Issue Ignored by the Media: How the Military Affects our Climate &#038; Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>The Issue Ignored by the Media: How the Military Affects our Climate &amp; Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>In this episode of Know Your Stuff, we interview Nick Buxton, an activist and researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) about the role of the military in the climate crisis. We talk about how the military sector impacts the environment, but also how the military sector itself prepares for a changed climate. We also discuss why climate movements do not focus on the role of the military in their activism and whether climate change can be addressed effectively without taking into account militarisation and wars. Finally we explore the connection between the military sector and our economic and political system and how it affects democracy. <\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: The Issue Ignored by the Media: How the Military Affects our Climate &amp; Democracy<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Issue Ignored by the Media: How the Military Affects our Climate &amp; Democracy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4ChX2U4WDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Know Your Stuff is an educational program that promotes understanding and context on social concepts, historical events, and specialized topics that are not adequately addressed in the media landscape.<\/p>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT NICK BUXTON<\/h2>\n<p><span><strong>Nick Buxton<\/strong> is an activist and researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI), an international research organisation that supports social movements. He works actively on issues of border politics, climate change, militarism and economic justice and was co-editor of the book<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tni.org\/en\/publication\/the-secure-and-the-dispossessed\"> <i><span>The Secure and the Dispossessed &#8211; How the military and corporations are seeking to shape a climate-changed world<\/span><\/i><\/a><span>. He is founder and chief editor of TNI&#8217;s flagship annual publication,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tni.org\/en\/topic\/state-of-power\"> <i><span>State of Power<\/span><\/i><\/a><span>. (Born in the UK, he is currently based in Davis, California but has also lived for a number of years in Bolivia, Pakistan and India.)<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Know Your Stuff, we interview Nick Buxton, an activist and researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) about the role of the military in the climate 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