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Fighting Fire with Water: Nonviolent Alternatives to Militarism

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Book cover Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence

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Given the huge impact of militarism on the climate, it is clear that drastically reducing or even eliminating militarism is a vital ingredient in environmental sustainability. The inevitable questions, however, which arise from this proposal are: How should countries defend themselves? How can dictators be removed from power, or repressive regimes ended? After examining the rhetorical underpinnings of those questions, this chapter argues that nonviolence can fill both those needs.

The more there is of real revolution the less there is of violence; the more violence, the less of revolution.1

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Branagan, M. (2013). Fighting Fire with Water: Nonviolent Alternatives to Militarism. In: Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010100_2

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