Why Hasn’t the World Recognized That War and The Use of
Dangerous Weapons Also Contribute to Environmental Pollution?
Mujeeb Khan
Saudi's war with Yemen, Houtis's missile attack on oil installations in Saudi Arabia
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Thousands of US military personnel who served on bases in Iraq and Afghanistan were Exposed to the dense black Smoke from burn pits where everything from IEDs to human waste was incinerated
The Largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine is on fire following a Russian attack
Amsterdam Netherlands
will bar when cruise ships dock in its port in the center of the city. This is
part of an effort to curb pollution, and the environment is also a major
factor. On the other hand, there is news that the US is going to send more
fleets to the Persian Gulf, to protect Gulf from Iran’s threat. The United States
has decided to send nuclear submarines to South Korea due to the security posed
by North Korea’s nuclear missile tests in the Korean Peninsula. The US has
already the largest naval base in the Persian Gulf, America has aircraft
carriers here, and more than five thousand soldiers are stationed in the Gulf. Apart
from the United States, the British and French fleets are also here. How much
has the presence of ships in such large numbers in the Gulf alone polluted the
environment here? while the Netherlands government considers the traffic of
commercial ships in Amsterdam as a cause of environmental pollution. US, UK,
and France also conduct naval exercises in the Gulf, their naval exercises also
contribute to polluting the Gulf. The US and its East Asian allies conduct
military exercises in the Pacific and pollute the environment there.
America dropped
its first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan 78 years ago and witnessed
the devastation it caused. Even today, its radiation effects are present in the
soil in these cities. America used Agent Orange herbicide chemical in the Vietnam
War, of this, the Vietnamese got cancer and died. The American soldiers themselves
got cancer and they also died from it. These chemical weapons also had an impact
on the environment, they pollute water and soil. The US used depleted uranium
missiles in the Iraq war. The use of these missiles polluted the air, water,
and soil. While military vehicles trucks, and tanks use diesel, and when these were
the targets of counterattacks, they caught fire, black smoke would cover the
city. The air has been polluted for weeks. As a result of this pollution in the
environment in Iraq, children were born defective, and this is stated in the
reports of the United Nations and other international organizations related to
public health.
In the wars in
Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Afghanistan, the use of missiles, bombs, cluster
bombs, drones, and the use of thousands of tons of Dezi cutter bombs have
polluted the environment. During the Saudi-Yemen war, the Yemeni Houthis
launched missile attacks on the Saudi oil wells, the wells burnt, and black
smoke filled the air, and it was also a fossil fuel, which pollutes the environment.
US soldiers in Afghanistan are suffering from lung disease, and military personnel
have died from the smoke from thousands of tons of burn pits. Afghan citizens who
lived near the American military base, it is not known whether they were affected by
these burn pits.
Now the world is
watching the war in Ukraine pollute the environment. Missiles are falling on
the nuclear plant in Ukraine, and flames from sensitive installations are polluting
the air. Wrecked rusted vehicles are polluting the soil. The damage done to the
environment using deadly weapons and wars for two decades and the level of
pollution in the air is also a definite contribution to climate change. Major
NATO countries set the stage for wars in the world and are manufacturers of
deadly weapons. They do not talk about how their weapons pollute the
environment. Instead, they focus on fossil fuels, greenhouse gas effects, and
CO2.
