Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2023

Posted: 27th March 2023

The latest IPCC report is a “final warning” but says not all hope is lost. It offers options. None of them are nuclear power. Biden’s defense budget request is already obscenely inflated. But it could hit $1 trillion and that would be “madness” writes William Hartung.
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Burning down the house

The Biden administration’s decision to fund a massive oil and gas drilling project in the Alaskan Arctic came in the same week that the IPCC issued its most dire climate warnings yet. The climate scientists identify renewables and efficiency, not nuclear power, as the obvious climate priorities. Yet our governments, and the media who quote, them seem deaf to the extreme global crisis we face. READ MORE

Defense spending madness

Biden’s FY 2024 defense budget request is $886 billion, far more than is needed to defend the country and its allies, writes William Hartung. Congressional add-ons could even push it to $1 trillion and more than half will go to weapons contractors. These funds need to be cut back, something the People over Pentagon Act, led by Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan, is trying to achieve. READ MORE

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