The environmental impact of wars begins long before they do, through resource-intensive military build-up
Evidence
How does war damage the environment? (Conflict and Environment Observatory (CEOBS))
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: War degrades landscapes before any fighting actually occurs there — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28; War and national crisis have both fueled and sapped the environmental movement’s political force — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1093; Technologies promising shorter wars can extend violence across ecological time — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 624 (+1 more)