Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War

by Timmon Milne Wallis

To survive the climate crisis, we need money, brainpower and infrastructure for the most effective climate solutions. Those resources are currently being squandered by the nuclear weapons industry. We'll also need the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters to stop pointing nuclear missiles at each other and start building unprecedented global cooperation. Can we "feed two birds with one scone" by converting assets from nuclear weapons of mass extinction to evidence-based climate solutions?

There are already excellent pathways to global nuclear disarmament. There are already excellent alternatives to burning fossil fuels. The obstacles are misinformation, propaganda, and politicians corrupted by profiteering corporations. This book is a tool kit for campaigners on both issues to work together on treaties, divestment, boycotts, lobbying, legislation, education, conversion and more. It debunks myths, frauds, and distractions. It's full of well-documented facts and figures, tools and strategies, personal and political inspiration for swift, decisive action.

360 pages, Paperback

First published June 17, 2019

About the author

Timmon Wallis is the national coordinator of the Warheads to Windmills Coalition. He holds a BA in Human Ecology and a PhD in Peace Studies. He has spent his life teaching, writing, directing organizations, and campaigning on peace and environmental issues in colleges, war zones, and with governments around the world. His book, Disarming the Nuclear Argument: The Truth About Nuclear Weapons, contributed to the negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, for which the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

Reviews

[David Spanagel]

While this is probably not the most beautifully composed prose that I have read this year, the book concentrates one's mind upon the most urgent and essential truths of our current situation as human beings.. For the sake of our survival as people and a planet, we MUST achieve global peace, the abolition of nuclear weapons, and an much more accelerated transition away from reliance on fossil fuels to meet our energy consumption habits. This is literally a life and death choice, with our capitalistic economics and BOTH our major political parties' indistinguishable commitments to projecting awesome l"ethal" power abroad standing before us as suicidal impediments to that survival.