International peace and environmental organizations. Beyond terracide and permawar / United Nations Environment Programme -- Permawar -- human nature and war. The roots of war. Stones to drones: a history of war on earth / Gar Smith ; Patriarchy and war: treating nature like dirt / Vandana Shiva ; U.S. exceptionalism: the hubris that fuels wars / Marjorie Cohn ; Blowback: climate change and resource wars / Michael T. Klare ; War is not biological / Margaret Mead ; Lessons from the bonobos / Sally Jewell Coxe -- The business of war. War is a racket / Smedley Butler ; War as an economic strategy / Jerry Mander ; An empire of military bases / High Gusterson ; The high costs of a warfare economy / Dave Gilson ; Disaster capitalism on the battlefield / William J. Astore ; "False flage": how wars are packaged and sold / James Corbett ; Banking on the bomb: investing in nuclear weapons / Wilbert van de Zeijden ; Recruiting America's child soldiers / Ann Jones -- Terracide -- the war on nature. Nature in the crosshairs. Afghanistan: bombing the land of the snow leopard / Joshua Frank ; Africa: wars on wildlife / Jane Goodall ; El Salvador: scorched earth in Central America / Gar Smith ; Guam: the tip of America's global spear / Catherine Lutz ; Kuwait: the war that wounded the world / William Thomas ; Serbia: the impact of NATO's bombs / Phillip Frazer ; Sardinia: bombs and cancer in paradise / Helen Jaccard ; Vietnam: delivering death to the A Luoi Valley / Elizabeth Kemf -- Collateral damage. Baghdad: a civilization torn to pieces / Robert Fisk ; Ukraine: civil war and combat pollution / Doug Weir ; Syria: cities reduced to toxic rubble / Wim Zwignenburg and Kristine te Pas ; Wars and refugees / Tom H. Hastings ; Civilian victims of killer drones / Medea Benjamin ; The navy's sonic war on whales / Pierce Brosnan -- A field guide to militarism. The militarization of native lands / Winona LaDuke ; Wars are no longer fought on battlefields / David Swanson ; War on land: toxic burdens and military exercises / Susan D. Lanier-Graham ; War on the sea: islands under siege / Koohan Paik ; Wars for sand: the mortar of empires / Denis Delestrac ; War at a distance: long-range missiles / Jon Letman ; War in space: astro-imperialism / Karl Grossman -- The machinery of mayhem. Fueling the engines of empire / Barry Sanders ; Superpower, superpolluter / Tyrone Savage ; Jet fright: the impacts of military aircraft / Petra Loesch ; Land mines: the smallest WMDs / Jody Williams ; Explosive arsenals: "bomblets" in "near-nukes" / Helen Caldicott ; Weather as a weapon: "owning the weather in 2025" / U.S. Air Force ; Nuclear doomsday / Daniel Ellsberg -- The aftermath. Graveyaards, waste, and war junk / Susan D. Lanier-Graham ; The Pentagon's toxic burn pits / Katie Drummond ; America's "downwinders" / James Lerager ; Atomic islands and "jellyfish babies" / Darlene Keju-Johnson ; Haunted by memories of war / S. Brian Wilson ; The war zone: that became a new Eden / Lisa Brady -- Ecolibrium -- pathways to a planet at peace. Toward ecolibrium. Take the profit out of war / Smedley Butler ; Ecology and war / David Brower ; Why we oppose war and militarism / Environmentalists Against War ; In defense of the environment / Klaus Toepfer ; Protecting nature from war / United Nations Environment Programme -- Strategies for a more peaceful world -- International peace and environmental organizations.
Summary:
"While many books have examined the broader topic of military conflict, most neglect to focus on damage military violence inflicts on regional--and global--ecosystems. The War and Environment Reader provides a critical analysis of the devastating consequences of "war on the environment" with perspectives drawn from a wide array of diverse voices and global perspectives. The contributors include scores of writers and activists, many with first-hand field experience of war's impacts on nature. Authors include: Medea Benjamin, Helen Caldicott, Marjorie Cohn, Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Fisk, Ann Jones, Michael Klare, Winona LaDuke, Jerry Mander, Margaret Mead, Vandana Shiva, David Swanson, Jody Williams and S. Brian Willson."--Amazon.com.
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