Real Environmentalists Stop Bombs & War Not Traffic
Fri 5:11 am +00:00, 24 Nov 2023https://youtu.be/jDoKrKYkhUQ?list=TLPQMjMxMTIwMjPIHe8LEuamiQ
Toxic Exposure on U.S. Military Bases
https://www.veteransnewsreport.com/2021/05/25/toxic-exposure-military-base/
US military accused of obstruction over cancer linked to ‘forever chemicals’
Families fight for benefits after victims allegedly developed cancer from drinking water tainted by toxic PFAS at New Hampshire base
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/us-military-toxic-pfas-forever-chemicals
“The British and the Americans continue to cling to their crazy theory that these radioactive substances which bind to DNA are effectively harmless and have no genetic or indiscriminate effects on populations,” Busby said. “In this case, I just have to say that the British are wrong, that this substance contaminates Europe and will cause all of the effects that it caused in Iraq (…) It will cause all those effects in Germany, and Luxemburg, and France, and Sweden, and the Baltic States and a long list of countries which stand between Ukraine and the United Kingdom, where we measured it.”
Israel’s ‘environmental crisis’ is of its own making (2019)
Israel’s destruction of the environment in Palestinian territories is now threatening Israeli lives.
Then there is the problem with rubbish, which Palestinians are burning and hence “polluting Israeli air”. As Cambridge University academic Ramy Salemdeeb has pointed out, Gaza has been unable to develop a proper waste management system because of economic restrictions due to the Israeli siege and a “limited land availability” because of its isolation from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories.
What the Israeli report does not mention is that beyond sewage and rubbish problems, Gaza is also suffering from a variety of other environmental disasters, which are again linked to the Israeli occupation and aggression against the Palestinians.
The Israeli army regularly sprays herbicide on Palestinian arable land close to the fence separating the besieged territory from Israel. The chemical it uses most often is glyphosate, which has been proven to cause cancer. According to the Red Cross, these activities not only damage Palestinian crops but also contaminate the soil and water.
Israel’s repeated bouts of heavy bombardment of the Strip have also contributed to pollution. There is evidence that the Israeli army has used depleted uranium and white phosphorus in its assaults on Gaza, which not only cause immediate harm to civilian populations but also remain a source of health risk long after the bombardment has stopped.
Likewise, weapons used in Israeli military operations have contaminated the environment in Gaza with heavy metals like tungsten, mercury, cobalt, barium, and cadmium, which are known to cause cancer, birth defects, infertility, etc.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/7/7/israels-environmental-crisis-is-of-its-own-making/
