Peace and Just Climate Transition Now!

Come join and build a movement for peace on Earth and peace with the Earth. Now we must come together locally, nationally and internationally for a ceasefire and peace negotiations in all wars, for concrete solutions to climate problems and for a fair distribution of resources.

Militarization all over the world is consuming enormous resources needed to solve the climate crisis and other major problems of our time. To continue to devastate and exploit the natural resources as if they were infinite makes the planet uninhabitable. Life itself is threatened.

We cannot continue to live as if there are numerous globes. Energy use must be greatly reduced both through energy-efficient technology and an energy-efficient lifestyle. We must have a resource-saving society. That requires fundamental change of the economic system and the society–a change for the better for those living in rural and urban areas and those working in agriculture, forestry, industry and service sectors.

War means that people are killed, injured and traumatized. People are forced to flee. Homes, communal buildings and infrastructure are destroyed. The environment is damaged by pollution, mines and bombs. War leads to military rearmament, it creates enemy images and builds fences between people. Instead we need to build peace.

We invite individuals and organizations to come along and create a people’s campaign for peace and justice. We need to build bridges to live together and be able to work together to solve the climate problems. We must create a dignified life all on our planet. We must work together to secure the food supply and save on our resources. We want the billions for military rearmament directed instead climate, schools, healthcare and social care.

Peace and just climate transition now!
Disarmament – for the environment and welfare!
For a just world!

Stockholm Peace Association/Working group for peace and just climate change
Friends of the Earth Sweden/Peace Committee
Artists for Peace
Fridays for Future Lund

What’s the war rhetorics about?

“It is very important that the NATO allies have the technological advantage on the future battlefield”, said Swedish Defence Minister Pål Jonsson in Svenska Dagbladet last autumn. The future battlefield, in definite form, as if it were a matter of course. And the Folk och Försvar (People and Defence) conference in January was just as inflammatory.

”There could be a war in Sweden,” said Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin. ”Russia’s war is a step, not an end goal,” said Commander-in-Chief Micael Bydén. ”War in Europe, with the possibility of further escalation in a short time, is today a reality”, said Thomas Nilsson from MUST (Military Intelligence Bureau).

Most alarmed is Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of NATO’s military committee, who urges the people of NATO to be ready for a major war at any time; ”we must be prepared for anything to happen at any time”.

Now they hardly believe that Russia will attack us. Russia has had great difficulty dealing with Ukraine, a country with a third of Russia’s population and a quarter of its economic capacity. So far the war has cost Russia 60-120,000 deaths. Does anyone seriously believe that it will immediately attack the NATO countries, which have eight times the population of Russia and 25 times its economic capacity? When the current war also shows that defence is now much stronger than attack?

Conversely, do the NATO admiral, the Swedish commander-in-chief and the Swedish ministers think that NATO is just waiting to pounce on Russia? That sounds equally far-fetched. Admittedly, I have no great respect for the wisdom of the ruling class, but they probably understand as well as you and I that this would easily trigger a nuclear war that would wreak such havoc in the NATO countries that their own existence would be jeopardised.

So what is it all about?