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An area of Ukraine the size of Florida is littered with landmines
- vogon_laureate 3y agoWe will need innovators, engineers, drones, robotics, armoured tractors, tech, AI, capital, political will and international coordination to clean it all up. We should do the same for the two dozen countries where landmines and unexploded munitions destroy lives still, in some cases, decades after they were laid.[1] [1]: https://www.halotrust.org/
- newprint 3y agoFrance is still littered with WW1 ammunition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIBE64CAgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIBE64CAgs Listen to numbers that one of EOD guys gives about clean-up WW1 ammunition.
- vogon_laureate 3y agoI live in the South coast of England. Every few months there's a story about some WWII bomb or sea mine that's been found that needs to be safely removed.
- newprint 3y agoSame situation all over the Germany.
- vogon_laureate 3y agoWhen you learn about the sheer numbers involved worldwide. The International Red Cross Committee reckons there are 30 million mines in 18 countries. Angola alone has 9 million![1] [1]: https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/57jmcy.htm
- taeric 3y agoCould state this as close to a quarter of the country? Just insane. :(
- 32gbsd 3y agoThat alot of mines. I guess they mean business.