Participation in a conference by Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 17-19 March 2026
RETOOL partner Aron Buzogány participated in the conference The Ecological Bootprint: Apprehending the Military-Environmental Nexus, by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, in 17-19 March 2026.
The conference focused on the critical examination of the military-environmental nexus, specifically how military organizations, responsible for an estimated 5.5% of global CO2 emissions, remain systematically obscured from international monitoring frameworks like the UNFCCC.
By invoking the idea of "military metabolism" the conference explore the flows of material and energy within militarized zones and analyze the impact of "war matter" on both the human and more-than-human. The aim of the conference is to develop analytical frameworks that measure the ecological bootprint of the armed forces while addressing the enduring connections between militarized landscapes, extractivism and the complex temporalities of nature trouble.
