Why Hasn’t the World Recognized That War and The Use of Dangerous Weapons Also Contribute to Environmental Pollution?

  

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 

 

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.