Ẹnikẹni ti o ba fiyesi nipa agbegbe wa ni o yẹ ki o ṣe ami pẹlu ibanujẹ nla ọgọrun ọdun kan ti Ogun Agbaye akọkọ. Ni ikọja iparun iyalẹnu ni awọn aaye ogun Yuroopu, ikore gbigbo ti awọn igbo, ati idojukọ tuntun lori awọn epo olomi ti Aarin Ila-oorun, Ogun Nla ni Ogun Chemists. Gaasi majele di ohun ija - ọkan ti yoo ṣee lo lodi si ọpọlọpọ awọn iwa laaye.
Insecticides were developed alongside nerve gases and from byproducts of explosives. World War II — the sequel made almost inevitable by the manner of ending the first one — produced, among other things, nuclear bombs, DDT, and a common language for discussing both — not to mention airplanes for delivering both.
War propagandists made killing easier by depicting foreign people as bugs. Insecticide marketers made buying their poisons patriotic by using war language to describe the “annihilation” of “invading” insects (never mind who was actually here first). DDT was made available for public purchase five days before the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. On the first anniversary of the bomb, a full-page photograph of a mushroom cloud appeared in an advertisement for DDT.
War and environmental destruction don’t just overlap in how they’re thought and talked about. They don’t just promote each other through mutually reinforcing notions of machismo and domination. The connection is much deeper and more direct. War and preparations for war, including weapons testing, are themselves among the greatest destroyers of our environment. The U.S. military is a leading consumer of fossil fuels. From March 2003 to December 2007 the war on Iraq alone tu silẹ diẹ ẹ sii CO2 ju 60% ti gbogbo orilẹ-ede.
Rarely do we appreciate the extent to which wars are fought for control over resources, the consumption of which will destroy us. Even more rarely do we appreciate the extent to which that consumption is driven by wars. The Confederate Army marched up toward Gettysburg in search of food to fuel itself. (Sherman burned the South, as he killed the Buffalo, to cause starvation — while the North exploited its land to fuel the war.) The British Navy sought control of oil first as a fuel for the ships of the British Navy, not for some other purpose. The Nazis went east, among several other reasons, for forests with which to fuel their war. The deforestation of the tropics that took off during World War II only accelerated during the permanent state of war that followed.
Awọn ogun ni awọn ọdun aipẹ ti ṣe awọn agbegbe nla ti ko le gbe ati ipilẹṣẹ mewa ti awọn asasala mewa. Boya awọn ohun ija apaniyan ti o fi silẹ nipasẹ awọn ogun ni awọn maini ilẹ ati awọn ado oloro. Mewa ti milionu ti wọn wa ni ifoju-lati dubulẹ ni ayika ilẹ. Awọn iṣẹ Soviet ati AMẸRIKA ti Afiganisitani ti parun tabi ba ẹgbẹẹgbẹrun awọn abule ati awọn orisun omi jẹ. Awọn Taliban ti ta igi ni ilodi si Pakistan, eyiti o mu ki ipagborun pataki. Awọn ado-iku US ati awọn asasala ti o nilo igi ina ti ṣafikun ibajẹ naa. Awọn igbo ti Afiganisitani ti fẹrẹ lọ. Pupọ ninu awọn ẹiyẹ ti nṣipopada ti o ti kọja nipasẹ Afiganisitani ko ṣe bẹ mọ. Afẹfẹ ati omi rẹ ti ni majele pẹlu awọn ohun ibẹjadi ati awọn ohun elo apọn.
The United States fights its wars and even tests its weapons far from its shores, but remains pockmarked by environmental disaster areas and superfund sites created by its military. The environmental crisis has taken on enormous proportions, dramatically overshadowing the manufactured dangers that lie in Hillary Clinton’s contention that Vladimir Putin is a new Hitler or the common pretense in Washington, D.C., that Iran is building nukes or that killing people with drones is making us safer rather than more hated. And yet, each year, the EPA spends $622 million trying to figure out how to produce power without oil, while the military spends hundreds of ẹgbaagbeje ti awọn epo sisun epo ni awọn ogun ja lati ṣakoso awọn ohun elo epo. Miliọnu dọla ti o lo lati pa olutọju kọọkan ni iṣẹ ajeji fun ọdun kan le ṣẹda awọn iṣẹ agbara agbara ti 20 ni $ 50,000 kọọkan. Awọn aimọye $ 1 ti Amẹrika ti lo nipasẹ Amẹrika ni ọdun kọọkan, ati $ aimọye $ 1 ti gbogbo agbaye papo pọ, le ṣe iṣeduro iyipada si igbesi aye alagbe ti o pọju julọ ti awọn ere wa. Paapaa 10% ti o le.
When World War I ended, not only did a huge peace movement develop, but it was allied with a wildlife conservation movement. These days, those two movements appear divided and conquered. Once in a blue moon their paths cross, as environmental groups are persuaded to oppose a particular seizure of land or military base construction, as has happened in recent months with the movements to prevent the U.S. and South Korea from building a huge naval base on Jeju Island, and to prevent the U.S. Marine Corps from turning Pagan Island in the Northern Marianas into a bombing range. But try asking a well-funded environmental group to push for a transfer of public resources from militarism to clean energy or conservation and you might as well be trying to tackle a cloud of poison gas.
Inu mi dun lati jẹ apakan ti igbiyanju kan ti o bẹrẹ ni WorldBeyondWar.org, already with people taking part in 57 nations, that seeks to replace our massive investment in war with a massive investment in actual defense of the earth. I have a suspicion that big environmental organizations would find great support for this plan were they to survey their members.
David Swanson's fẹ ki o kede alafia ni http://WorldBeyondWar.org Iwe tuntun re ni Ogun Ko Si Die sii: Ọran fun Abolition. O ni awọn bulọọgi ni http://davidswanson.org ati http://warisacrime.org ati ṣiṣẹ fun http://rootsaction.org. Ologun Ẹrọ Redio Agbọrọsọ Talk. Tẹle rẹ lori Twitter: @davidcnswanson ati FaceBook.
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