Climate Justice Alliance Links Militarism to Climate Crisis in Iran Strike Statement
As U.S. and Israeli forces strike Iran, the Climate Justice Alliance frames military action as ecological governance failure — the U.S. military remains the world's largest institutional emitter while resource extraction drives geopolitical conflict.
The Climate Justice Alliance has condemned U.S. and Israeli preemptive strikes on Iran, arguing that military action directly undermines climate stabilization efforts. The statement points to a stark institutional reality: the U.S. military is the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, operating at a scale that dwarfs many nations’ total emissions — even as the UN warns of global water bankruptcy and irreversible temperature thresholds.
The Alliance frames these strikes not as security policy but as resource extraction governance: a continuation of what it calls the U.S.’s “ongoing history of engaging in coups, occupations, and endless wars to control resource-rich countries, especially for oil and gas.” Since 2025 alone, the Trump administration has conducted military operations across the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America — a pattern the statement explicitly links to fossil fuel access and regional destabilization.
This intervention raises a governance question rarely surfaced in foreign policy discourse: how do we account for the climate cost of military institutions themselves? The Alliance’s call to “oppose war and militarism” isn’t pacifism as moral stance but ecological necessity — a recognition that planetary stewardship requires dismantling the systems that treat resource extraction as grounds for violent intervention. The statement stands with frontline communities calling for immediate cessation of airstrikes, positioning demilitarization as climate governance.