The environment: the silent casualty of the Ukraine war

[Sherman A1]

or humans, war is an obvious tragedy.

But when the fighting stops, another more silent victim is discovered: the natural environment itself.

Ukraine may have averted even more nuclear contamination after Russia's military withdrew from its Chernobyl power plant but there are other concerns.

Danger of forest fires
"Huge areas of Ukraine are impacted,” says Bohdan Vykhor, Executive Director of WWF Ukraine. “There are regions of Ukraine where there are lots of stocks of hazardous waste. If the military destroys them, it may cause huge water pollution of very big rivers. War increases the probability of forest fires. And due to the high intensity, forest fires cause damage not just to people and air pollution, but also biodiversity."

https://www.euronews.com/2022/04/17/the-environment-the-silent-casualty-of-the-ukraine-war

[2naSalit]

1. When the war bagan...

I added the prahse in my sigline, "Well, there goes the biosphere."

It is obvious that whatever efforts to mitigate the biospheric decline in order for us to survive will probably be cancelled out by the emissions from war(s).

[Irish_Dem]

2. All the money spent on this war could have gone to climate change.

Now countries are talking about building up their weapons, nukes, etc.
Money that could be spent on climate change.

[jfz9580m]

3. Yup.nt