Dacht
even dat ik erin bleef toen ik afgelopen vrijdag 29 mei de
kop boven een artikel van Unearthed (Greenpeace) zag:
wapenfabrikanten die zich voorbereiden op de klimaatverandering en zich richten op het verduurzamen van oorlogsvoering......
Tja,
oorlogsvoering is in alle opzichten een heel smerige klus, dus dat
moet schoner kunnen hebben de oplichters bedacht!! (in een hersenstorm van 2 weken)
Eén en
ander geeft ten overvloede nog eens aan dat grote bedrijven zich maar
wat graag 'greenwashen' in de openbaarheid en zich daarbij voordoen
als de beschermers van het klimaat, terwijl ze de wereld in een
noodtempo onbewoonbaar maken.......
Hoe kan
je in godsnaam proberen om duurzaam oorlog te voeren, dit is zonder
meer een contradictio in terminis die z'n weerga niet kent!!! Steden bombarderen,
mensenlevens vernietigen en ga nog maar een half uur door, alsof dat
niet alleen hele gebieden en steden in puin legt, maar ook de
klimaatverandering een enorme duw in de rug geeft......
Het is als VVD premier en aartsleugenaar Rutte die het gore lef had te zeggen dat er dik geld verdiend kan worden aan de klimaatverandering, terwijl hij en zijn kabinet Rutte 3 (inclusief de 2 voorgaande) amper of niets doen tegen de klimaatverandering..... De wapenfabrikanten zien dat hun klanten, afzonderlijke landen, het belangrijk vinden om te spreken over duurzaamheid en daar haken deze fabrikanten op in, door het greenwashen van hun producten..... Zo van: als de gemiddelde burger maar denkt dat we duurzaam bezig zijn, is er 'geen vuiltje aan de lucht', dezelfde afweging die neoliberale en inhumane regeringen als Rutte 3 gebruiken.......
De
hoogste tijd dat de grote wapenfabrikanten op de internationale
terreurlijst worden geplaatst, immers zij behoren tot de
hoofdverantwoordelijken voor vele tientallen miljoenen moorden, waarbij ze ook nog eens verantwoordelijk zijn voor een uitermate vuil productieproces dat funest is als je de klimaatverandering wilt afremmen en met het gebruik van hun producten deze klimaatverandering op een gigantische manier aanjagen...... (producten als: wapens, munitie, rollend, varend en vliegend oorlogstuig, plus wapensystemen)
Het
doel van verduurzaming is de aarde te redden voor generaties na ons,
terwijl wapenfabrikanten compleet voor het tegenovergestelde staan:
zoveel mogelijk oorlogvoeren, waarbij zelfs de komende generaties in de
vorm van kleine kinderen worden vermoord....... Deze wapenfabrikanten gaan voor de grote winsten ook als de
aarde en een groot deel van de mensheid daarvoor naar god moet worden geholpen........
Figuren
die zich bezighouden met duurzame oorlogsvoering zouden (als de ontwikkelaars van wapens en wapensystemen) voor de rest
van hun leven gevangen moeten worden gezet, immers dit zijn
psychopaten van een smerig niveau zo als nog maar zelden is gezien,
levensgevaarlijke oplichters en massamoordenaars!!! ('duurzame massamoorden', hoe zot moet je zijn.....)
How
weapons manufacturers are preparing for climate change
26.05.2020 Joe Sandler Clarke
A
man trys out the cockpit of a Eurofighter Typhoon jet at the BAE
Systems exhibition space at the Farnborough Airshow in 2018. Photo:
Adrian Dennis / AFP via Getty Images.
Arms makers are
putting forward energy efficient lasers, solar submarines and gas
powered assault ships as their contribution to tackling the climate
crisis
From
solar submarines to low carbon lasers: the climate crisis is giving
weapons manufacturers new opportunities to hawk their deadly wares
with eco-friendly marketing.
Unearthed
and VICE have gone through documents prepared by some of the world’s
biggest weapons manufacturers to see how they are responding to the
climate emergency.
We’ve
learned that the arms industry fears cuts in fossil fuel use will
undermine demand for highly polluting products like tanks, planes and
ships. But from developing new, greener weapons to spotting
“financial opportunities” amid threats to public safety caused by
environmental disaster, the industry is looking for ways the climate
crisis can increase sales.
Raytheon,
an American aerospace and defence company which had net sales worth
in
excess of $27 billion in 2018, told the Carbon
Disclosure Project
(CDP)
last year that it’s investing in technologies that are either “low
carbon or do not require as much fossil fuel”. So you can give
Mother Earth a big hug at the same time as you eviscerate your
enemies from the battlefield.
In
a report submitted to the CDP – a small NGO which asks major
companies to detail their climate plans annually – that it was
putting its money into “high powered microwave systems”, which
apparently
can
be used to disable multiple drones at once, and “high energy laser
weapon systems”. A video posted on Raytheon’s
YouTube channel
shows
the lasers easily swatting drones and missiles out of the sky like a
game of low-carbon Space Invaders.
BAE
Systems says it is testing new equipment in a ‘wider range of
temperatures than similar products have been specified for in the
past’
BAE
Systems, the British firm which has played a leading
role in supplying the Saudi air force
with
materials for its war in Yemen, wrote in its 2019 CDP submission that
it was testing new equipment in a “wider range of temperatures than
similar products have been specified for in the past”, many of its
key markets, including the Middle East, face increasing extremes of
heat if temperatures rise unabated.
Reduce,
re-use, recycle are the watch words of the eco-conscious everywhere,
and in the UK, the Ministry
of Defence has
said it is looking to cut down on plastic and other forms of waste by
reusing “munition packages”, used to hold everything from bullets
to missile components.
Lockheed
Martin cites its venture capital arm, Lockheed Martin Ventures, in
its CDP submission. The firm has investments in several robotics
firms and a Californian business called Ocean Aero which makes solar
powered submarines.
According to Ocean Aero’s
website, these solar submarines can tackle illegal fishing and help
with environmental monitoring. But in an article jointly
published by Ocean Aero and Lockheed Martin in 2018, sets out,
they can also be used for silently killing people.
“
In
the future, it is clear that the Submaran™ will be ‘missionized,’”
it says euphemistically.
The document adds that such missions likely
use “a variety of Lockheed Martin payloads and systems integration
expertise, to become the cross-domain lynchpin of a ‘system of
systems’ performing a diverse assortment of potential missions,
including those requiring a covert platform.”
Several
firms warn that new regulations aimed at addressing climate change by
limiting fossil fuel productions and greenhouse gas emissions could
negatively affect their businesses. Research published last summer by
Brown
University found
that the US military produces more CO2 emissions annually than some
countries, including Portugal and Sweden.
That’s
one of the reasons why firms say they are moving to reduce emissions
and transitioning to renewable energy to power their factories and
offices. Lockheed Martin, for example, talks up its new “biomass
boiler system” at its facility in New York in its 2010 response
to PWC*. This year, Northrop Grumman said it met its own target of
reducing its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 30% from 2010
levels this year.
But
despite the eye-catching initiatives, the changes appear mostly
cosmetic. The customers for these companies are national governments,
the same governments stalling progress to tackle climate change and
publicly doubting the science under-pinning it. These firms can’t
really act in a significant way if their customers don’t want them
to.
Climate
change is likely to mean more instability in the world. More conflict
as resources decline and more migration as parts of the world become
difficult to live in.
A
2015
memorandum to
Congress from the US Department of Defence read: “Climate change is
an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing
to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over
basic resources such as food and water.”
Several
defence companies are looking at this trend and seeing an
opportunity. Lockheed Martin told us it works with governments and
companies to improve climate monitoring.
French firm Thales told the
CDP that it could see increased demand for the company’s weather
forecasting technologies. There could also be more demand for new
equipment to help on humanitarian missions, trucks and ships to help
in evacuations, for example.
With
political leadership it is possible that these companies could
contribute more than just coming up with less energy intensive ways
to blow things up, or new weapons with which to fight each other as
the crisis worsens.
The
coronavirus pandemic has shown for the first time since the Second
World War that major companies can be forced to work for the public
good. In the UK, a consortium
of nearly 30 companies, including Airbus, Rolls-Royce and
McLaren, are currently working to supply the NHS with urgently needed
ventilators.
However,
Steve Chisnall, a lecturer in International Security and Strategy at
Southampton University, said that environmental opportunities are
likely to be “small beer”.
He
said: “They’re always going to want to sell big weapons systems
because that’s where the money is.”
Chisnall,
who spent a career in the RAF before entering academia, believes that
weapons manufacturers, with their scientific knowledge and
manufacturing expertise, could play an important role in transforming
the global economy.
But for
now, they’ll probably just keep reacting to the world as it is.
“These companies know a huge amount about climate change. They have
huge research teams and tremendous resources. The problem is that,
like the rest of us, they don’t know what the future of security is
going to be,” says Chisnall.
As if
to prove his point, shortly after talking up its work on weather
forecasting, in its submission to the CDP, French arms giant Thales
mentions the possible “financial opportunities” in the area of
“public safety” as the climate changes.
This article was co-published
by VICE.
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* PWC: Price Waterhouse Coopers, een internationaal accountants- en belastingsadviesbedrijf. Wat nog eens aaangeeft dat de financiële wereld (of beter: maffia) dik is verknoopt met de vernietigers van menselevens en van ons aller thuis, de aarde..... (en dat gebeurt ook nog eens middels oliemaatschappijen, waarin de grote banken en grootaandeelhouders als het koningshuis enorme kapitalen hebben geïnvesteerd)
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