Contents:

Military lens - military objectives requires enemies. A hammer in search of a nail.

US Air Force - largest user of fuel in the world. Mitigation inevitably leads to less flight hours. Not an option.

All military, governmental and even social responses have a technology bias. “Reducing emissions” is unpalatable.

In Washington, Trump era impacts on EPA, hangover into Biden Administration.

EPA not responding to disinformation, which has a negative impact on policymaking.

Biden has already approved more oil and gas projects than the entire Trump presidency.

Willow Project and LNG projects with 1200km pipelines across thawing permafrost. Huge cost - what benefit?

Persistent belief that magical techno-fixes will remove pollution from the atmosphere.

SRM - Can’t be controlled once aerosols are up in the stratosphere.

Issues with deployment - companies attached to smaller countries sidestepping regulation.

Conspiracies kill rational discussion. The Pentagon won’t even discuss it.

New paradigm of disaster era present need for integrating disaster risk with climate policy.

Companies still seeking to profit off climate destruction with business models projecting out 10-20 years into the future.