Five Points on Sociology, PEWS and Climate Change 1

JWSR has a wonderful track record of publishing research on the environment, including climate change, and I'm proud that I modestly contributed to this while serving as coeditor of the journal from 2007 to 2011, and by guest coediting a special issue on globalization and the environment that appeared prior to my term as coeditor. Some of my recent collaborative research builds on these ideas and integrates them with newer strands of environmental inequality scholarship (Hooks and Smith 2004, 2012) to show that the world's militaries consume enormous amounts of fossil fuels and other resources to create and maintain their vast global infrastructure (Clark, Jorgenson, and Kentor 2010; Jorgenson and Clark 2015), and military vehicles of all shapes and sizes are not energy efficient!