Warfare's Toll On The Environment
The mass violence that we humans create is war. It seems that whenever there is a conflict between large groups of people such as tribes or countries, we resort to war. Warfare has permanent effects on everything in its hostile path. One major thing war has a consequence on that not many people are aware of, is the environment and its processes to help us survive. The weapons of warfare are what directly destroy our world that some seem to take for granted.
It is unfortunate to think that war will most likely never cease to exist because it looks as if it is in human's nature. We pay attention to its emotional, mental, and some physical impacts it has on us, but our environment hardly ever comes to mind. When the world trade center was hit and destroyed, people were running from the resulting debris because they did not want to get hit by anything or cough in the black air. However, it confidentially assumed that no one was thinking about the toxins in the air from the atmospheric plume (Environmental Effects of Warfare, www.lenntech.com). This might have been because we cannot sense the toxins and we only perceive about one-trillionth of what is really happening around us (Ornstein, MindReal).
Warfare disrupts our living, but it also affects wildlife and their environment as well. Products of war such as harmful explosions, crashes, and mass machinery have a lethal impact. Poisons and wreckage pollute the air environment while the land is degraded and tarnished (The Environmental Effects of Warfare, www.dea.org). To think that people fight over land that they destroyed through warfare and oil that pollutes the environment we live in is astonishing.
Most people do not realize the consequence of war on our environment and how it can physically affect us by causing miscarriages, cancer, tumors, as well as genetic deformation. This issue needs to be addressed just as much as war's impact on the economy. Even though many see the violence of war as the answer to worldwide disputes, no one seems to realize that it never completely solved any problems in the past, so why would it today? War has only left us with harmful damages to our world. Not only does warfare cause death to humans and wildlife, but it causes death to our environment as well.
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