Nonviolence and Sustainability: An Indivisible Connection

Nonviolence is an important element of sustainability for three main reasons. One that nonviolent actions, including Australia’s Franklin River campaign, anti-nuclear blockades at Roxby Downs and Jabiluka, northern NSW old-growth forest blockades, climate actions against coal seam gas extraction, have long been effectively used by environmentalists, conservationists, preservationists to protect environments from damage advocate more sustainable societies, institutions, systems, processes. Nonviolent environmental action has also opposed militarism a range reasons, one which concern about the large footprint militarism. The third reason why nonviolence because it offers alternative as means national regional self-defence removal dictatorships, genocidal regimes, military juntas. This much lower environmental, economic, social costs. article begins with introduction methods sections, introduces 2030 Agenda United Nations ‘sustainability’ defines ‘nonviolence’ its connection sustainability. followed case studies discussion how these contributed Militarism impacts on environment are described, defence regime change presented viable less environmentally-damaging alternatives.