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Military spending ‘is diverting much-needed resources from tackling unfolding climate catastrophe,’ says CAAT report
Enthusiasts at the Tanks, Trucks and Firepower show, in the village of Dunchurch in Warwickshire

THE government spends more than twice as much on the military as on tackling the “unfolding climate catastrophe,” according to the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).

In a new study published today, the group says that any loss to Britain’s status as a global military power does not pose an “existential threat to the UK and the world.”

Instead the research argues that the “first duty of government” should be to mitigate disease, natural disasters and growing inequality.

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