This article from the Guardian discusses the environmental impact of war in recent times:
War is having an increasingly negative impact on the environment, which is becoming increasingly vital to address.
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UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has called on nations to do more to protect the environment from the devastation of war.
“The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of natural resources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating,” said Ban in a statement for the UN’s International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict on Thursday.
The New Message affirms the need to preserve the world’s environment, including through the ending of war:
“If your children are to have a world to live in, a safe and healthy world, then environment must become the most important thing. If environment becomes the most important thing or the number one concern, then war will be ended because war is damaging to the environment.”
(From Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume 2, chapter 25: “Environments”.)
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