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Airpower and the Environment: The Ecological Implications of Modern Air Warfare
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hayward, J. Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Abstract : Twenty years ago the Norwegian prime minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, stated, We are living in an historic transitional period in which awareness of the conflict between human activities and environmental constraints is literally exploding. We have come a long way in the subsequent two decades. Environmental responsibility now lies at the forefront of our Western world perspective and is constantly growing in importance. Ecological activism, which used to be a fringe movement, has now become mainstream. In 2007 Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize (and an Oscar!) for their efforts to raise environmental awareness. Greenpeace, which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, alone has no fewer than 220,000 members in the United Kingdom and 2.8 million worldwide. Ecologists, environmentalists, activists, lobbyists, and of course strategists are already turning their attention to ecological aspects of modern warfare, including land mines, cluster ordnance, erosion and soil damage, air pollution, deforestation, nuclear testing and proliferation, oil spillage and fires, depleted uranium contamination, disposal of ordnance, and so forth. It seems likely that such concerns will also become increasingly mainstream. As a consequence, governments and their armed forces will be paying more attention to the serious ecological ramifications of conflict. Some already are. The Global Strategic Trends paper published by the British Ministry of Defence s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) illustrates the importance now being placed on these matters by some British strategists. |
| Starting Page | 8 |
| Ending Page | 35 |
| Page Count | 28 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a602199.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://media.defense.gov/2017/Mar/31/2001725157/-1/-1/0/B_0131_HAYWARD_AIRPOWER_ENVIRONMENT.PDF |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA602199 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
