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Iraqi IEDs are a tiny drop in the bucket that is 'deployed landmines'. Most landmines are mass-produced by munitions companies. Start there.

• dragontamer 11y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty It has already started. But not everyone is on board with this. So now what? We go to war about it?
  • vacri 11y ago
    You're totally right, it's too hard. And companies in first world countries are completely unaffected by law, so lobbying your representative would have zero effect. As would public awareness campaigns to help push the issue politically. And god knows that countries should only pressure each other for important things, like forcing extensions to copyrights for movies and music. Let's just give up and go home, since apparently the only option is war.
  • huragok 11y ago
    "Well everything is fucked so we might as well not bother."
    • dragontamer 11y ago
      Oh we do "something" about it. But I just gotta point out that "forcing other people to do something" is typically a non-scalable solution. As soon as someone disagrees with you, you become deadlocked. Its not enough to just say "force those other guys to clean it up". If you actually want to say that, you need an action plan (ie: how you plan to force those other guys to do stuff). If you're saying "pass a law", we can pass a law of course, but its not going to affect other countries. This is a United Nations issue, and it needs to be solved globally.