Why do you think the environmental effects of war are sometimes overlooked ?
399480
because they are overlooked in peace time, too.\n\nNo one cares about the environment and no one will care until it's too late.  Short sighted bastards.
405069
Honestly, the effects are endless. I'm currently working on this topic for my Master's (that what I should be doing right now) and when you really start to delve into the study of it, it's really quite disgusting because it affects everything we rely on to live.  But to sum it up, when the land is polluted, it really leads to pollution, destruction, and loss of everything else. The pollution makes it way into our water sources, kills plants, and  consequently, that is one cause that leads to the loss of animal species.  Polluted land is often treated with chemicals to "clean it up" that ends up in the soil and poisons our food sources.  The issue really is complex, but I encourage you to study it further.  You won't look at this world the same.
78229
Whatever the answer be, a war is NEVER justified by the progress that science could make due to it... \n\nthink about the people who died because of the bombs, toxics, radiation, bullets...\n\nI've heard that some progress was made on the field of artificial blood...among others
133094
It's short term gain for long term pain. We need to think about the future inhabitants of our planet, rather than doing things like polluting the earth, just so we can make more products, etc. Sometimes people are shortsighted, and that is one reason the environment is in danger.
623477
In no way war is life.We should take all the available step to avoid any sort of war.b'cozwar is cause of immense destruction.But when war becomes inevitable then we should not  take a back seat and come up to protect our right.
218517
no.\n\nCurrrent scientific studies show that its genetics AND environment....not one or the other.
168910
to be aware of the environment, and how to respond to it
17034
If war was ended all over the surface of the globe, disease would be much easier to deal with.  It is hard to treat an HIV patient with bullets flying over your head (or lower).\nAnother reason might be that an end to war would free more resources which could then be used to fight all kinds of health problems, not just disease.
1044231
Vaguely, yes.  I'm not too old, nor too young.  I think what you are thinking about is not about the death toll, but rather how we stepped into jungle guerrilla warfare in Vietnam, totally unprepared for what was about to happen.  Then, we opened the jungle warfare school, and now we are awesome fighting in the jungle, but again the face of the enemy has changed and now we are fighting a bunch of terrorists, which like in Vietnam are difficult to differentiate between them and the civilian population.  We get burned in the press when we fight and burned when we don't, so it is a lose lose proposition and the soldiers are the ones with their back sides on the line.  The politicians? not so much.  Yes, we do have big guns, but if we blast the crap out of some building, inevitably, we kill someone unintended and it's a vicious press cycle.  The two "conflicts" are very different, but there are some vague similarities, that shouldn't be overlooked.  I hope one of the similarities doesn't turn out to be the length of time we stay there!
533372
Ehmm...the world is a sad place indeed, if there's a war going on in some part of the world and people are worried about the costs of it....well...I guess monkeys are smarter than us after all....
562119
The most noticable would be CAR FUMES! Look there are as many cars as pets in the USA, I swear some of them just let too much pollution! You don't need a detail answer, all you need is imagination, just look at all the cars, factories, machines, trucks and every single one of those! They affect the climate dramatically, without even mentioning the military and nuclear weapons being produced there! \n\nUSA is in deep growing danger!!!
403828
The Iraq war most be focused to getting the Iraqi people to take over the own defense.  Global warming is a natural process driven by sun cycles.  We will have to learn the impact of the sun cycles on the environment of our world and make needed adjustments.
959298
True.\nFortunally most of them are destroyied by the atmosphere.
667449
For heavens sake dont ever think of WAR first and then about its experience.\nWar is nothing but overall destruction. War seperates families.War destroys industries/buildings/bridges/propetrties/schools/hospitals.\nIt kills the soldeirs both side who are citizens of some country or the other,as well as innocent citizens who are not part of any army. It kills young and old alike. People are left with maimed organs for entire life.\nEven after the war is over one does not know where the hiddeen mines are which explodes when some one trips over.\nIt is horror , a terrorised experience to go thro and service . What a taste you have \nAre you joking when you ask was it hard living through it . want some one to say he enjoyed living through it. \nNot only the warring nations but all the rest of the world suffers and pay a price because of shortages of many items due to diversion of items to war fronts.
359739
Wars are needed as a natural part of human evolution. When you look at war from a long-range perspective, it becomes clear that, as destructive as wars are, their very destructiveness has served as the primary force for the evolution of the human race. By mercilessly elimnating those who were unable to survive in the theater of war, wars resulted in a constant upgrading of both the physiological and intellectual acuity of man.\n\nAlthough many bright people perish in wars, the preponderance of the casualties occur among people with the limited intellectual capacity to understand the mechanics of wars and who are thus unable to avoid becoming casualties (this takes into account the cowards who find a way to avoid the war).\n\nWho would seriosly dispute the fact that smart people have higher living standards than intellectually less endowed persons do? War elimnates the intellectually less fit and thus, in the end, raises the average intelligence and the living standards of society as a whole.\n\nThroughout the ages, evolution took advantage of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, war, natural disasters, disease and famine.\n\nIf we succeed in eliminating armies and war, we are also eliminating war in its capacity as a powerful contributor to evolution by keeping the world population in check. We are now at 6 billion humans, scientific projections of growth predict 10 billion within 50 years...mostly in under developed countries. Humanity will reach the limits of available resources at 9-12 billion..this is not sustainable.\n\nWe can only speculate as to which path evolution will take in reducing the world from 10 to 3 billion. A battle for resources will favor those with higher levels of intelligence and rationality. Evolution never receds to irrationality, superstition and stupidity.
382629
There is definately a correlation between the increase in the population of the world and the destruction of the environment.  But remember that correlation is not causation.  Just because two things increase at a similiar rate, does not mean that one causes the other.  The causes of the destruction of the environment, stems from our inability to responsibly advance our society.  It comes from our poor practices as a global society and as local communities.  It comes from our inability to think about how to do things efficiently and effectively while taking into account the environment and our long term comfort and survival.  It also comes from our rapidly increasing technology, combined with our not so rapidly ability to deal with the waste and biproducts that come along with technology.  Simple example: car and smog.  I hope this can start your thought process in the right direction.
727126
Vietnam war was a resource war. We wanted to control the tin, rubber, manganese , the still undeveloped off-shore oil and the largest rice growing region (Mekong Delta) in the world. We poisoned the Delta before we left with Agent Orange and today there are so many deformed births that they are just quietly put down. Vietnam war was a whore just like Iraq.