Modern warfare’s destruction of landscapes reveals a broken relationship between humanity and environment

Evidence

Landscape: a human lens on the environmental cost of war (CEOBS)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28; War degrades landscapes before any fighting actually occurs there — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28; Loss of silence signals our wider failure to address environmental crises — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 29 (+1 more)

Related

• War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes (similarity 0.87)
• War degrades landscapes before any fighting actually occurs there (similarity 0.83)
• The environmental impact of wars begins long before they do, through resource-intensive military build-up (similarity 0.82)
• Environmental mayhem outlives regime change and troop memory. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• War degrades landscapes before any fighting actually occurs there #expands (0.70) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28