Yayin da mai ke ci gaba da shiga cikin Tekun Mexico, daya daga cikin alamun da yawa na lalacewar muhalli mai hatsari a duniya, bukatar kalubalantar yaki da soja-musamman dangane da Amurka-ya zama mai matukar damuwa. Sojojin Amurka ita ce babbar mai amfani da albarkatun mai a duniya, kuma ita ce mahalli guda daya da ke da alhakin lalata yanayin duniya.
Kudin aikin soja na Amurka da yaki suna da yawa kuma da yawa. Baya ga karuwar mutuwar fararen hula da sojoji a Iraki da Afganistan, alal misali, jimlar kudaden da Majalisa ta ware don yakin biyu sun zarce dala tiriliyan daya a ranar 30 ga Mayu. Daga cikin wasu sayayya, irin wannan adadi mai yawa zai iya ba wa mutane 294,734,961 kiwon lafiya na tsawon shekara guda, a cewar Northampton, Massachusetts na ci gaba da ayyukan fifiko na ƙasa. sunan "tsaro na kasa" -wanda ke wadatar da 'yan kwangilar soja a cikin wannan tsari.
Kudin da ba kasafai mutum ya ji labarinsa ba—aƙalla a nan Amurka—sune lahanin muhalli da ke tattare da su akai-akai kuma a tsari. Tabbas, ya fi kowa sanin ƙoƙarin Pentagon don "tafi kore."
A cikin Maris, Cibiyar Ci gaban Amurka, alal misali, ta ba da rahoto game da "babban sabunta koren" ginin Pentagon. Lokacin da aka kammala shi a cikin 2011, "Sojoji na 25,000 na Pentagon da ma'aikatan farar hula ba za su yi aiki kawai a ɗaya daga cikin manyan gine-ginen ofis a duniya ba," labarin ya faɗo, "amma ɗayan mafi ƙarfin kuzari da dorewa."(2)
Bayan ginin Pentagon da kansa, sojojin Amurka suna "ci gaba da yaki da sauyin yanayi," in ji labarin rahoton 2010 na Pew Charitable Trusts. fasahohin amfani da man fetur, musamman jirgin saman yaki na Navy's FA/3, wanda ake yi wa lakabi da Green Hornet, saboda abubuwan da ake amfani da su na muhalli, da Motar Hasken Makamai na Marine Corp.(18)
Irin wannan "koren wankewa" yana taimakawa wajen rufe gaskiyar cewa Pentagon yana cinye kusan ganga 330,000 na mai a kowace rana (ganga yana da galan 42), fiye da yawancin ƙasashen duniya. Idan sojojin Amurka kasa ne na kasa, za su kasance a matsayi na 37 a fannin amfani da mai — gaba da irinsu Philippines, Portugal, da Najeriya—a cewar CIA Factbook.
Kuma ko da yake yawancin fasahohin sojan sun zama mafi inganci a cikin ƴan shekarun da suka gabata, yawan man da ake sha a kowace rana a lokacin yaƙi ya karu da kashi 175 cikin ɗari tun daga Vietnam, idan aka yi la'akari da yadda Pentagon ke ƙara yawan amfani da motoci. ababan hawa. Wani bincike na 2010 da Deloitte, kamfanin hada-hadar kudi, ya bayar da rahoton cewa Pentagon tana amfani da galan mai 22 na mai ga kowane soja a kowace rana da aka tura a cikin yake-yaken ta, adadin da ake sa ran zai karu da kashi 1.5 a kowace shekara kodayake 2017.(5)
Mafi munin laifin shine Sojan Sama, wanda ke cinye galan biliyan 2.5 na man jiragen sama a shekara, kuma ya kai fiye da rabin amfani da makamashi na Pentagon. A karkashin yanayin tashin jirgin na yau da kullun, wani jirgin yaki na F-16 yana kona man fetur da ya kai galan 2,000 a cikin awa daya. Sakamakon illar da ke haifar da yanayin yanayin duniya ya fi kowane mil tafiya fiye da jigilar mota ta ƙasa saboda tsayin da jirage ke tashi tare da cakuda iskar gas da barbashi da suke fitarwa.(6)
Daga cikin abubuwan ban mamaki na wannan duka, ganin cewa babbar manufar dabarun sojan Amurka ita ce tabbatar da kwararar mai zuwa Amurka cikin sauki, shi ne yadda ma'aikatar tsaron Pentagon ke sha'awar makamashi na taimakawa wajen tabbatar da wanzuwarta da kuma ci gaban da ake ganin ba zai karewa ba.
A cikin ma'anar kai tsaye, yaki da militarism suna haifar da shimfidar wurare da yanayin yanayin tashin hankali-da gawarwakin da aka keta. A Laos, bama-bamai da ba a fashe ba daga haramtattun bama-bamai da bama-bamai na Washington sun mamaye yankunan karkara, kuma sun kashe da raunata dubbai tun bayan karshen yakin, kuma suna ci gaba da yin hakan a kusan mutum daya a kowace rana. A Vietnam, an haifi kimanin yara 500,000 na Vietnam tun tsakiyar shekarun 1970 tare da lahani na haihuwa da aka yi imanin cewa suna da alaƙa da lalatawar Agent Orange da Pentagon ta jefa a cikin ƙasar. Kuma a Fallujah da ke fama da yaki, bayan hare-haren da Amurka ta kai wa birnin Irakin a shekara ta 2004, an samu karuwar nakasassu na jarirai da kuma karuwar ciwon daji na yara kanana.(7)
Bayan wuraren da yaki ya yi niyya kai tsaye, illolin da sojoji ke yi na amfani da albarkatun muhalli baya mutunta iyakokin yankuna. Suna kara ta'azzara rikicin muhalli da ke karuwa a duniya. Daga lalatar tekunan duniya, zuwa koma baya a cikin bambance-bambancen halittu da kuma kara tabarbarewar yanayi, yaki da soja na barazana ga bil'adama da rayuwa ta hanyoyin da ba a taba ganin irinsa ba.
Irin waɗannan "kudaden muhalli" tabbas ba'a iyakance ga ayyukan sojojin Amurka ba. Amma da aka ba da haɗin kai a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa, cibiyar sadarwar daruruwan sansanonin soja a duniya da kuma da yawa a cikin Amurka, da kuma kasafin kuɗi a yanzu ya yi daidai da duk sauran sojojin duniya a hade, Pentagon dole ne ya zama tsakiya. mayar da hankali kan kokarin kare biosphere ta hanyar kalubalantar yaki da militarism. Fiye da kowane lokaci, bil'adama - da Uwar Duniya - ba za su iya samun su ba.
(1) http://www.nationalpriorities.
(2) http://www.americanprogress.
(3) http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_
(4) http://www.aero-news.net/
(5) http://www.deloitte.com/us/
(6) http://www.guardian.co.uk/
(7) http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Joseph Nevins yana koyar da labarin kasa a Kwalejin Vassar da ke Poughkeepsie, New York. Shi ne marubucin littattafai da yawa. Na baya-bayan nan shi ne "Mutuwar Rayuwa: Labari na Shige da Fice na Amurka a Zamanin Wariyar launin fata ta Duniya," wanda aka buga a cikin Buɗewar Watsa Labarai ta Littattafan City Lights. http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100601600
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