Military is Killing the Earth

The Hidden Architecture of U.S. Militarism

http://www.scoop.co.nz:80/stories/HL0804/S00357.htm

Military Conducting War on the Environment

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/want-save-environment-de-fund-pentagon

Why We Must Eject Weapons & Their Makers from Our Planet

http://www.planetization.org/ejectweapons.htm

War on Earth by Bob Feldman

The world's largest polluter, the U.S. military, generates 750,000 tons of toxic waste material annually, more than the five largest chemical companies in the U.S. combined. This pollution occurs globally as the U.S. maintains bases in dozens countries. In the U.S. there are 27,000 toxic hot spots on 8,500 military properties inside Washington's Fairchild Air Force Base is the number one producer of hazardous waste, generating over 13 million pounds of waste in 1997. Not only is the military emitting toxic material directly into the air and water, it's poisoning the land of nearby communities resulting in increased rates of cancer, kidney disease, increasing birth defects, low birth weight, and miscarriage.

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/15-us-militarys-war-on-the-earth/

Why In the World Would They Destroy Hawaii...On Purpose?
by Cathy Garger

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=7549

The Department of Defense Can Already Level the Globe with Bombs – Now It's Also the World's Largest Polluter

In this era of "permanent war," the U.S. war machine bombards civilians in places like Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It also makes "war on the Earth," both at home and abroad. The U.S. Department of Defense is, in fact, the world's largest polluter, producing more hazardous waste per year than the five largest U.S.chemical companies combined. Washington's Fairchild Air Force Base, the number one producer of hazardous waste among domestic military bases, generated over 13 million pounds of waste in 1997 (more than the weight of the Eiffel Tower's iron structure). Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, the top toxic waste emitter, released over 600,000 pounds in the same year (the same amount of water would cover an entire football field about two inches deep).

http://www.alternet.org/story/15373/

"Climactic Warfare" –  The Important Factor Left Out of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report that Won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

Under the UNFCCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has a mandate ‘to assess scientific, technical and socioeconomic information relevant for the understanding of climate change’. This mandate includes environmental warfare. ‘Geo-engineering’ is acknowledged, but the underlying military applications are neither the object of policy analysis or scientific research in the thousands of pages of IPCC reports and supporting documents, based on the expertise and input of some 2,500 scientists, policymakers and environmentalists. ‘Climatic warfare’ potentially threatens the future of humanity, but has casually been excluded from the reports for which the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7561

Siege and Seizure in Korea by Cindy Sheehan   

Traveling around the world these past months has given me an education about American history that majoring in the subject at UCLA never did. I have witnessed first hand what US imperialism and militarism can do to countries and societies. I sat with indigenous Hawaiian tribal leaders who shared their tragic stories of how US colonialism and militarism ruined their fishing waters and turned their lands into super-fund sites. I stood in solidarity with Irish peace activists who want the US military off their soil and want US transport and rendition planes to stop using Shannon Airport to land for refueling. These are just a few stories. Everywhere I go, the local populations have stories of greed, crime, corruption, pollution, etc., that all go hand in glove wherever the US military is present. Not to mention the "hot" war zones, where hundreds of civilians are murdered, maimed or displaced on a daily basis.

http://www.farmsnotarms.org/pz%60news%20%60amp%60%20press/korea.aspx


"Military Pollution:  The Quintessential Universal Soldier" by Lucinda Marshall

The number of health problems and environmental problems that have been reported near military installations throughout the world is truly staggering. The following are only a few of the many examples.

The U.S. Navy is the largest polluter in the San Diego, California area, having created 100 toxic sites during the last 80 years. Environmental damage caused by the Navy includes spilling over 11,000 gallons of oil into the San Diego Bay in 1988. Fish in the Bay contain high levels of mercury and radioactive compounds that are attributable to Navy pollution of the Bay. (4)

Near the Naval Air Station in Fallon, NV high rates of cancer and rare diseases have probably been linked to the dumping of jet fuel, radio and electronic emissions and the contamination of groundwater with radioactive materials. Fallon has the highest per capita rate of childhood leukemia in the nation. (5)

It is important to note that the contamination of military bases is also a problem overseas where significant toxic pollution has impacted the areas near U.S. military bases in countries such as South Korea, the Philippines and Panama.

Pollution from the manufacturing of military weapons is equally horrific. The soil near a plant that manufactured depleted uranium rounds in Colonie, New York was found to have 500 times the amount of uranium that one could normally expect to find in soil. (6)

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0327-21.htm

Troubled Waters

Mercury Build-Up in the Seas: Where it Comes From and What It's Doing to the Food Chain

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/troubledwaters.html

Toxic Military Sonar:  Harm to Whales and Other Marine Life

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2005/2005-06-03-09.asp

http://www.nrdc.org/wildlife/marine/sonar.asp

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0210-11.htm
 

See Further:  Shocking Widespread Destruction on Beautiful Planet Earth!

http://www.planetization.org/canceronearth.htm

http://www.planetization.org/duandwar.htm

http://www.planetization.org/ejectweapons.htm