The U.S. War Machine is Destroying the Planet
After watching Abby Martin and Mike Prysner’s new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, I’ve had to reconsider my orientation toward environmental activism entirely. It is now crystal clear to me that the top priority for every activist in the climate, broader environmental, and anti-war movements must be to confront our single largest threat: the U.S. military empire, which runs on criminally unaccounted-for levels of deadly fossil fuels as we teeter at the precipice of climate catastrophe. The war machine poisons communities on a global scale, and it’s all in service to the insatiable life-sucking resource lust of capitalism. To lift the veil from our eyes, this film should be required watching for anyone who cares about the future of our planet. We can delude ourselves no longer about where the focus of our energy must go.