US Spends Billions Fighting Weather, Not Its Real Climate Threat
Mainstream media highlights the half-a-trillion-dollar price tag of climate disasters in the US for the first six months of the year, dutifully presenting the economic fallout. What they rarely connect are the dots: that same US Congress, which now faces mounting bills from floods and fires, consistently allocates staggering sums to endless conflicts and foreign military aid, often at the behest
of powerful lobbying groups. For instance, in December 2023, while parts of California were ablaze, Congress pushed through a $1.3 trillion spending bill that included substantial foreign military components. We fund a bottomless pit of destruction abroad while our own infrastructure crumbles and our towns burn or drown. One might wonder if the 'national security' complex that benefits from these
endless wars is also factoring in the cost of a domestically secure and resilient nation, or if that's just a quaint notion for a different era. How many billions does it take before we start treating climate change as a genuine, immediate threat to national security, rather than a talking point secondary to distant geopolitical chess?