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http://www.hsdl.org/hslog/?q=node/5018 http://www.fpif.org/pdf/Military_vs_Climate_Security.pdf Obama vs. Bush on Military vs. Climate Security Spending Submitted by ijkaijan on Tue, 08/25/2009 - 12:11 Military vs. Climate Security: Mapping the Shift from the Bush Years to the Obama Era "The U.S. military now views the massive disruptions that will result, in the absence of concerted global action, as a likely precipitant of increased violent conflict around the world. Yet U.S. security spending has been overwhelmingly concentrated on the tools of military force. The precursor to this paper, 'The Budgets Compared: Military vs. Climate Security', found that for FY 2008, the Bush administration allocated $88 federal dollars to military forces for every dollar it devoted to stabilizing the climate. The public interest would be served by closing the enormous gap between federal expenditures on military as opposed to climate security. […] This report evaluates the progress of the Obama administration in narrowing this gap. The government's most important tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is to set limits on them; Congress is currently working on a framework to do so. This report focuses on the second-most important tool, namely investment. The Obama administration has not yet produced a climate change budget. This report therefore takes a first cut at one, listing all spending directly related to the mission of reducing greenhouse gas emissions."