From Pakistan’s Daily Times comes this report of a seminar held to mark the ‘International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict’
‘Excessive use of weapons increasing global warming, deforestation’ – RAWALPINDI: The participants of a seminar held to mark the ‘International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict’ have showed concern over the frequent and rising use of weapons of mass destruction and explosives charge irreparable loss of degradation of environment, infrastructure and basic services. (Daily Times)
Cannot see the forest for the trees?
And how about all that damage from WWI and WWII, I guess that was an aberration. The natural world survived and you have to look hard for all that destruction. But Superfund and the EPA will find them and punish companies who helped defend America from the Nazi’s. Or maybe the enviros would preferred an Axis victory.