For instance, Klein ignores the deep connection between
climate chaos, militarism, and war. While she spends an entire chapter
explaining why Virgin Airlines owner, Richard Branson, and other Green
billionaires won’t save us, she devotes three meager sentences to the
most violent, wasteful, petroleum-burning institution on Earth—the US
military.[1]
Klein shares this blind spot with the United Nations’ official climate
forum. The UNFCCC excludes most of the military sector’s fuel
consumption and emissions from national greenhouse gas inventories.[2]
This exemption was the product of intense lobbying by the United States
during the Kyoto negotiations in the mid-1990s. Ever since, the
military establishment’s carbon “bootprint” has been officially ignored.[3] Klein’s book lost an important opportunity to expose this insidious cover-up.
-- Craig Collins, "Overlooking the Obvious With Naomi Klein" (CounterPunch).