CAMPAIGNERS TARGET GLASGOW MILITARY AND ARMS SITES TO HIGHLIGHT CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Posted: 22nd October 2021

Today Trident Ploughshares and XR Peace campaigners are visiting 10 arms dealers’ and military locations in Glasgow so as to underline the massive carbon boot-print 1 of the war machine and to demand that their harmful emissions be included in any carbon assessment.

The campaigners are delivering letters 2 to these offices explaining how they are harming the planet and demanding that they use the momentous occasion of the COP26 climate conference to announce the setting of strict greenhouse gas emissions limits on everything that they are involved in, including the research, manufacturing and sale of all their products, and in all their subsidiary companies, sections, and departments. They that transparent reporting requirements and independent verification are also included, and that they do not rely on schemes to “offset” emissions.

Angie Zelter, from XR Peace said:

“It is important to be here today to put pressure on arms companies and the military to come clean about their carbon boot-print and the need to stop arming the world. These are some of the biggest arms dealers in the world and all they are interested in is making huge profits regardless of the impact on people and the environment. This is not the time for gaining profit from armed conflicts by selling more weapons – it is a time for us all to change the behaviours and practices that will cause the destruction of most life on earth. As long as they continue to support preparations for and resort to war and armed conflicts as a means of solving disputes we will not be able to address climate change. All people of the earth face a common threat. To avert catastrophe, we must find new ways of thinking and work together to save our shared home, and this means that these companies must redirect their resources to address the threat of the climate catastrophe”.

Lynn Jamieson, from Scottish CND, said “It is a matter of extreme urgency that industry in Scotland switches from producing weapons that harm people and planet to socially useful low-carbon products .”

Gillean Lawrence, from Trident Ploughshares, said “I am pleading with you to stop contributing to the planet’s destruction. The dangerous risks faced by my grandchildren living in Glasgow, and by all children and adults everywhere, from the climate crisis and war deeply concern me.”

For more information contact Angie on 07454573135 or Gillean Lawrence on 07733333223

Pictures and further information at https://xrpeace.org/cop-26-glasgow/