Political turnover outpaces environmental recovery, killing cleanup incentives.
Evidence
The slow violence of unexploded munitions exacerbates the problem of political accountability. In the aftermath of war, political changes occur far faster than environmental recovery. There remains little incentive for an administration to spend taxpayer money cleaning up lethal detritus left behind in far-off countries from a predecessor’s war. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 696
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Borders can shift across pollution, leaving detoxification to successor states — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 133; Inner attention damage blocks the political work needed to fix outer environmental damage.