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America’s Afghanistan war devastated the environment, may never be cleaned up
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoJust how many countries has the USA poisoned to spread peace and democracy?
- born2discover 3y agoToo many to count I'm afraid
- tetris11 3y agoAlmost as many as the British during their heyday.
- derelicta 3y agoYou just dont understand. It's the price of freedom! /s
- quantified 3y agoEastern Ukraine was fertile agricultural land, likely why it's the subject of takeover (in addition to mineral mining). Wonder how much of it will be reusable as such, and how much of it will be used but will be basically toxic output.
- ungruntled 3y agoMaybe someone knows the answer. But is there something unique about munitions used in Afghanistan or Ukraine vs those used in WW1/2 or Vietnam or Korean wars that are particularly more toxic or have increased duration of toxicity that would make crops unusable? I would have suspected the munitions to be similar enough to see the same effects.
- enterprise_cog 3y agoI’m guessing depleted uranium would be a major differentiator from those old munitions. And while the GP said toxic, I have to imagine leftover bomblets from cluster munitions are going to have serious effects on working the land as well.
- pvaldes 3y agoTalibans probably could benefit of creating a minister of science and environmental issues and provide it with some resources to address this type of problems; instead to rephrase the old "donate, is for the boys" into "send money, this time is for nature" (tip, it wasn't, it isn't). Who lives in this bases now? If they are empty and the area is too contaminated, to start this people should be moved. Show some action.
- pvaldes 3y agoSecond question. If the claim that one of each three Afghans have problems with drugs is true, there is a fair statistical possibility that at least one of this men have skin blisters, kidney problems, chronically infected wounds that take ages to heal, lung problems, and poor health... just because a past history of drug abuse. This particular set of symptoms can be found in people poisoned, but also consistently in any committed heroin addict all around the planet. Every single one of them. This fact should be taken seriously to anybody trying to investigate this problem. There is a deafening background noise in the poor health variable just because the average level of health in the whole population was abysmal before, and this noise must be sorted out.