Jon — This week, multiple U.S. agencies issued a collective warning that climate change is coming for us all.

But apparently someone forgot to tell the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC).

Because while the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, National Security Council, and director of national intelligence were busy further confirming what many already knew about the climate crisis, the Democratically-led SASC was busy finalizing next year’s whopping $778 BILLION Pentagon budget.

We can no longer ignore the fact that weapons and war require massive amounts of fossil fuel. The Pentagon is the largest institutional consumer of petroleum and a HUGE source of greenhouse gas — emitting more than 100 countries combined. 

Continuing massive payouts to fund the Pentagon’s mega-polluting pet projects as the world burns and drowns? The disconnect is mind-boggling. 

Win Without War is one of just a few organizations who works on cutting spending for weapons and war — every. single. day. In the coming weeks, the entire Congress will vote on the Pentagon budget, giving us a chance to stop them from rubber-stamping another blank check that funds pollution and war.

We’re heading into the last days of October facing a steep fundraising gap of $15,881. Less than 1% of those reading will give, but if everyone who is gives now, we could close this gap in seconds. Any amount will fuel our work to block the bloated Pentagon budget. Can you donate $4?

The average time between billion-dollar disasters has dropped from 82 days in the 1980s to just 18 in the last five years. But right now, as we struggle through wildfires, freezes, tornadoes, heat waves, and hurricanes, the Senate is mired in a heated debate over the Build Back Better plan, which would fund comprehensive energy and climate reform.

Well, next year’s Pentagon budget not only towers over that agenda, it’s also nearly $300 BILLION more than the cost of FIVE Green New Deal bills. 

What is being prioritized? The failed F-35 fighter jet, nuclear weapons, battleships, bombs, and surveillance tech.

It’s time we truly reconciled with what all this war spending costs us, got our priorities back in order, and put the PEOPLE first — and Win Without War is at the forefront of this fight. 

And together, we’ve had some really important victories: Last summer, we worked closely with congressional allies to block outrageous proposals to add additional funding for the Pentagon in the COVID stimulus bill. Earlier this year, we shut down their attempts to sneak these funds into the infrastructure bills too. 

Now, the Senate is on track to vote on the Pentagon budget in the coming weeks, making this moment the start of an all-out sprint on pushing Congress to prioritize our communities’ needs over more funding for pollution and war. We’re building momentum to push back against the Pentagon’s greed — and we need you with us.

It’s a lot easier for us to go hard on these fights when we don’t have to spend time worried about hitting our fundraising goals — and right now we’ve got a HUGE gap to cover. That’s why I’m asking: Can you donate $4 now and help us ramp up our fight to cut the Pentagon budget?

Militarism is fueling the climate crisis, but every fraction of a degree of planetary warming we avoid matters — it means lives saved and ecosystems protected. There is much we have already lost, but there is much we can save.

Thank you for working for peace,

Faith, Sara, Amy, and the Win Without War team

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