This is a subject that I have often wondered about. I'm looking forward to your views.
2006-09-30 02:52:26 · 16 answers · asked by Sincere Questioner 4 in Environment
I don't mean only the obvious stuff like bombing a refinery, although for sure that fits too.
2006-09-30 02:54:11 · update #1
All the answers are good and thoughtful.
I have to put this one to a vote.
2006-10-07 23:50:59 · update #2
The effects of war can be wide ranging. There are particular cases that are especially damaging and tragic. For example in the latest Israeli - Lebanon war of a few months ago the Israelis bombed the fuel store for a Lebanese power plant releasing tens of thousands of bunker oil into the Mediterranean. This oil is even thicker and heavier than most crude oil. Then because of security concerns no one was allowed to try to clean up this oil spill and so it just sat there for months doing damage to the environment. It is in fact still not cleaned up. You can read about it in the news story below.
2006-09-30 03:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by Engineer 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes Of Course it does! Wars should be avoid at almost all costs. I think a Government that rules with War is actually admitting defeat in the fact of not being able to rule without war. I Bet Bush wouldn't have stayed in Power without that War thing. Both Bush. I think the Sept11 think it only happened cause Bush got in government.. They didn't get his father so they in away went after him! It's his fault the way I see it! Or the peoples fault for electing him! But then there wasn't anyone better. Well I'm in Canada and we Canadians are just as bad getting the wrong Politicians in power!
2006-10-08 00:22:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I do. I think some of those bombs they dropped in the first Iraq war released all sort of, I don't know what to call it, but chemicals or gases and things into the air. Pollutants of some kind to a massive degree. But what where they supposed to do to get them out of Kuwait and stop the torture and murder the news claimed was going on over there?
I even heard a report where they somehow measured the pollutants released by Aliied bombing and they were quite high, dangerous levels.
2006-10-01 02:26:19 · answer #3 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You bet it does! You don't want to address bombs and the like, so consider the amount of deaths due to reactionaries. Just look at Iraq. How many Iraqi citizens (men, women, and children) have died because of extremists in their own country. That, in itself, is an environmental change.
War is a human thing. Look at the demise of animals and vegetation that we've caused. We've polluted our water resources, too. It's not bad enough that we commit genocide and perpetrate unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other. We have to ruin our home...Earth.
2006-09-30 14:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I know this seem lame, but, Trees are ruined and Farm Lands and Homes. As a person can see Japan is still having the effects of an Environmental change. This my opinion.
2006-09-30 10:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. As you know the air pollution caused by the bombs might form acidic rain or polluted rain. Also, the earth works beneath the crust will be affected.
2006-09-30 23:30:50 · answer #6 · answered by Hardrock 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes war contributes to environmental changes.Many trees are destroyed during wars.Animals are also killed.Do you remember the effect of the nuclear bomb which was blast in Heroshima(a place) in Japan during a war by America?
2006-09-30 10:08:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This war certainly does, in the most dramatic way possible - nuclear radiation - from the depleted uranium shells being used. It is, in fact, a nuclear war!!!.
Depleted uranium video
http://elequity.com/du/DU.swf
Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11
For hundreds of years to come, the effects of the uranium will continue to wreak ... "American forces admit to using over 300 tons of DU weapons in 1991. ...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060503&articleId=2374
2006-10-02 09:02:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
2006-09-30 14:20:35 · answer #9 · answered by theophilus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, It do contributes to environmental change.
2006-10-04 07:29:00 · answer #10 · answered by Rijied 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋