AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In writing about a climate crisis riven by extractivist capitalism, one thing I've tried to stress is the reality that to whatever degree this is an individual consumption driven problem, climate catastrophe is, inarguably, caused primarily by the activities of large corporations, capitalist governments, and the rich people who own them. Fossil Fuel companies and corporate polluters aren't paying to push "personal consumption" propaganda on a boiling planet for no reason, after all. Furthermore, in talking about addressing climate crisis on an individual level in the mainstream discourse, there is a tendency for pro-capitalist pundits to completely ignore the knock on effects of activities conducted by large-scale capitalist actors and states that clearly *do* rapidly accelerate the human species towards mass extinction; the most obvious of which is, the conduct of war and military operations in perpetual preparation for future undefined wars.</p><p>As an anarchist, anti-imperialist peacenik who knows only rich men and weapons contractors benefit from the wars they demand labor class people die in, I'm pretty much against war and militarization as a matter of course. But the reality is by some measurements the US military is literally the largest polluter on the planet, and despite the fact that we can all see the roaring fighter jets, exploding rockets, and smoke rising from the wreckage during every major modern conflict, until recently nobody in our establishment discourse was prepared to consider that this might be making global warming worse and the (presumed) fight against climate crisis harder. This matters, and for years I've been practically begging readers to pay more attention to a problem I am absolutely certain the pro-capitalist, pro-imperialist American media establishment is ignoring on purpose.</p><p>As such it was a bittersweet moment when I ran across this Guardian article about a carbon footprint study conducted on the first 15 months of Israel's US-backed genocide targeting Palestinians in Gaza. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/carbon-footprint-of-israels-war-on-gaza-exceeds-that-of-many-entire-countries" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/may</span><span class="invisible">/30/carbon-footprint-of-israels-war-on-gaza-exceeds-that-of-many-entire-countries</span></a></p><p>Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries</p><p>"The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll, new research reveals.</p><p>A study shared exclusively with the Guardian found the long-term climate cost of destroying, clearing and rebuilding Gaza could top 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). This is more than the combined 2023 annual greenhouse gases emitted by Costa Rica and Estonia, yet there is no obligation for states to report military emissions to the UN climate body.</p><p>Israel’s relentless bombardment, blockade and refusal to comply with international court rulings has underscored the asymmetry of each side’s war machine, as well as almost unconditional military, energy and diplomatic support Israel enjoys from allies including the US and UK."</p><p>The back of the napkin story here is that Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, and Netanyahu's attempts to broaden the conflict with operations in Lebanon, is pumping out enough carbon to qualify as a moderately sized industrial nation in its own right; at the precise time carbon emissions are boiling the planet and driving what many scientists say is an already ongoing mass extinction event. Israeli military operations are responsible for the vast majority of this carbon output, which in turn means that a US government arming and funding the IOF as it conducts a genocide, is also responsible. While a capitalist-controlled international order will never recognize the truth, the reality is that these too are crimes against humanity; in addition to the obscene number of *recognized* crimes against humanity Israel is committing during its genocide in Gaza. We are all paying for these atrocities with more than tax dollars and our humanity, because of decisions made by oil-drenched greedbag murderbots who claim to be acting in our collective best interests.</p><p>As bleak as this report is however, its very existence still inspires a flicker of hope in my weary heart. If climate crisis and the rise of genocidal fascism across the Pig Empire and its client states have done nothing else, they have made it abundantly clear that the fight against climate catastrophe is a struggle against imperialism, capitalism, and fascism all at the same time.</p><p>"The research, published by the Social Science Research Network, is part of a growing movement to hold states and businesses accountable for the climate and environmental costs of war and occupation, including the long-term impact damage to land, food and water sources, as well as post-conflict clean-up and reconstruction."</p><p>You're not crazy, and we are not alone. Now, what do we do about it?</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carbon</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a></p>