The following are the interview questions used for the research.
What is war?
What are the different types of conflicts that can be classified as war?
What is your country or origin?
Has your country experienced or engaged in war since 1960s?
What are the general effects of war on the environment?
What do think are the effects of modern war and military activities on biodiversity?
How does war affect the ecosystem?
What are the effects of war on human beings and other animals?
Do you think the nuclear bombs and other chemicals used during war affect the environment?
What are the solutions to the environmental consequences of war?
Interview Findings
The effects of war on the environment varies depending on the level of war the
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In this case, 90% of the participants agreed that the adoption of nuclear weapons during international wars affected human health, plants and animal species. The participants also highlighted that depletion of raw materials used for manufacturing weapons as one of the effects of war on natural resources. One of the participants from Iraq cited the case of Gulf War caused an extensive depletion of uranium in Middle East which is accompanied by adverse health effects on humans and other animal species. Exposure to Depleted Uranium used during the Gulf War continues to affects the residents of the affected regions.
The interviewees also cited the destruction of infrastructure, water resources and soil as the other effects of war on the environment. The destruction of chemical plants and use of chemicals in wars causes contamination of water resources and mineral imbalance in agricultural soils that limit their productivity. The interview participants indicated that military machinery and explosives have caused unprecedented levels of deforestation and habitat destruction. The destruction of biodiversity by war activities has led to serious disruption of ecosystem services such as erosion control, food production and water quality. The ratings of the interviewees to the environmental elements that are affected by war were
The consequences of the war were extremely gloomy because it opposed to the progress of the nature, destroying human beings. In that harsh war, the living
familiar landscape, reducing trees and buildings to desolate rubble and churning up endless mud in some areas” (The British Library). The war also consisted of the burdensome and difficult task of killing enemy soldiers. With this duty came the underlying reminder of the lives that were lost due to the belligerence nature of war. The witnessing of innocent men die and
If nuclear weapons are used in war sustainable life on this planet will be ended. Nuclear Weapons have only been used a few times in the history of this earth. The few times nuclear weapons were used the amount of damaged they caused was devastating. The first country to use nuclear weapons was the United States during World War II. On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima killing between 90,000 and 166,000. Then on August 6th, 1945 the second atomic bomb nicknamed “Fat Man” was dropped on Nagasaki killing 60,000 – 80,000 people. These statistics show how devastating nuclear weapons were when they were used and how they can be if they are used again. This paper will examine the Dangerous effects of
Walter Dean Myers touches on a subject that give thought to war in general in his book Sunrise Over Fallujah. Sunrise Over Fallujah focuses on the Iraq war after 9/11 and a young man’s experiences while there. The Historical significance of sunrise Over Fallujah is that the young man, Robin “Birdy” Perry, realizes shortly after arriving in Iraq that this war will not end quickly, and that he doesn’t even really understand why he is there, or why his country, for that matter is there. There is a lot from Sunrise Over Fallujah that relates to real life occurrences and thoughts in and about the war in Iraq.
As well as with the animals thousands die due to the chemical, materials, and weapons they test on them. Also, the military does not need to get a permit to make an atomic weapon or any other illegal action. After all, the military creates their own policy that can protect them from being sued. Since the military can argue that it is in the benefit of ‘national security.’ This affected the people who live in these third work countries where there is no regulation on not to pollute at times people have to migrate to different places just as in the book when many people had to leave their hometown. Furthermore, not only in the book they used all their natural resources, but researchers in the documentary called “Flow of Love of water,” said in different rivers the level of water is decreasing and that in 2020 there would not be as much as clean water due to the fact that corporation are calming the water and putting them in bottles and selling them for profit. As the elderly people from the book, the new generation would not be able to experience and see the ways the environment used to be like. Also, in the American agricultural, the
Vietnam suffered enormous environmental damage from the war, manliy from US bombing and use of defoliants such as Agent Orange. Bombing destroyed many rice-growing areas in South Vietnam and severely damaged the ecomony of North Vietnam. US government s denied Vietnam any foreign aid after the war.
village and massacres the civilians. This war aftereffects the civilians in many ways; the war
Technological advancement, newly evolved military tactics and the greatest amount of artillery fired anywhere in the war left little of the pre-war landscape remaining other than the occasional splintered tree stump or a building reduced to rubble. Silent clouds of poisonous mustard gas drifted over a seemingly never ending sea of mud laced with duck boarding and scarred with gaping shell hole craters that were littered with the debris of war, both human and nonhuman. All the while the rain continued to fall.
Nuclear weapons have been used twice in war – on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. More than 210,000 civilians died, while many more suffered small injuries. Even if a nuclear weapon were never again exploded over a city, there are horrible effects from the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons that are experienced as a personal and community catastrophe by lots of people around the world. This must inform and motivate efforts to get rid of these weapons.
The first World war chemical weapons were used then outlawed for combat. “Unlike when the U.S. was the only nuclear power and first used the technology against Japan without fear of reciprocation” ( The Ch.1 The Dangers). As a country we didn’t know the effects of a bomb on a living city, but now we know the consequences. Now what
Is the use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in war ethical? Is there an appropriate time to use them? A dilemma will later be presented for consideration. Different ethical theories can either support or oppose the use of CBW depending on the circumstances. However, chemical, biological and nuclear agents are dangerous, uncontrollable and undifferentiating weapons of mass destructions. Actions must be taken to see that there are no future instances of use during war. However, before one discusses the legal and ethical issues involved with CBW, one must understand what chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are and how they function.
Chemical weapons are toxic gases, which use in the wars such as World War 1. Chemical weapons used in First World War and they killed a lot of people even children. In addition, chemical weapons are unless color, so people can’t see them. Also, most of people who died through the First World War were civilians. Therefore, who were responsible about them? In addition, people who survived had dangerous and permanent diseases such as cancer, asthma … etc. Even people’s genes effected by these toxic gases and they cause a lot of genetic problems that appeared in a second generation. Even soldiers who were pushed to this war. Then, they died or effected who were responsible about their families. In addition chemical weapons burned a lot of trees and they changed plant characteristics. Also, these gases can react with others to change air and weather characteristics. Therefore, chemical weapons effect on our
Wars are expensive (in money and other resources), destructive (of capital and human capital), and disruptive (of trade, resource availability, labor management). Large wars make up severe shocks to the economies of participating countries. Despite some positive aspects of short-term stimulation and long-term destruction and rebuilding, war generally impedes economic
It is not until recently that people have become dependent on this element, and not necessarily for the good of it, and the world. There is an obsession with uranium because of its unique properties. Uranium is extremely powerful because of its radioactive properties and unstable nuclei, especially that of Uranium-235. It is able to break down and release high frequency radiation through alpha and beta decay. It is because of these characteristics that Uranium has such a craze on the population of the world (Cox, 1995; Scerri, 2007). The properties of uranium allow people to create powerful plants to produce electricity, and weapons strong enough to destroy the world.
This developed into a race to see which nation could build the first nuclear weapon. The weapon that the United States manufactured was first used on the Japanese at Hiroshima, and then two days later at Nagasaki. The potential of this weapon was frightening. Under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970, the Atomic bomb was banned from use by all countries except the United States, Russia, China, France, and United Kingdom because of the global aftereffects of this terrifying weapon. Nuclear warfare produced the most heinous aftereffects of any previous type of warfare (Walker). The blast of a nuclear weapon is powerful. It may cause third degree thermal burns, produces enough pressure to bend heavy steel girders to a 90-degree angle, and turns the entire blast radius into a firestorm. The people who have survived the blast will still experience a lifetime of side effects. Some of these might be genetically linked to future generations. The intensity and brightness of the blast may cause symptoms like keloid formation and retinal blastoma in humans. The sediment, or fallout, from the mushroom-like cloud,produced by the explosion, will be highly radioactive. The nuclear blast and its consequential fallout will affect