
War and Environment Reader
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The War and Environment Reader explores the historical, political and psychological roots of war, the business of war, the environmental and social consequences of war, and the alternatives to war. While many books have examined the broader topic of military conflict, most neglect to focus on damage military violence inflicts on regional-and global-ecosystems. The War and Environment Reader provides a critical analysis of the devastating consequences of "war on the environment" with perspectives drawn from a wide array of diverse voices and global perspectives. The contributors include scores of writers and activists, many with first-hand field experience of war's impacts on nature. Authors include: Medea Benjamin, Helen Caldicott, Marjoie Cohn, Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Fisk, Ann Jones, Michael Klare, Winona LaDuke, Jerry Mander, Margaret Mead, Vandana Shiva, David Swanson, Jody Williams and S. Brian Willson.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Praise for The War and Environment Reader
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Enheduanna's Lament
- Introduction: Beyond Terracide and Permawar Gar Smith
- Part I: Permawar-Human Nature and War
- The Roots of War
- Stones to Drones: A History of War on Earth - Gar Smith
- Patriarchy and War: Treating Nature Like Dirt - Vandana Shiva
- U.S. Exceptionalism: The Hubris That Fuels Wars - Marjorie Cohn
- Blowback: Climate Change and Resource Wars - Michael T. Klare
- War Is Not Biological - Margaret Mead
- Lessons from the Bonobos - Sally Jewell Coxe
- The Business of War
- War Is a Racket - Major-General Smedley Butler
- War as an Economic Strategy - Jerry Mander
- An Empire of Military Bases - Hugh Gusterson
- The High Costs of a Warfare Economy - Dave Gilson
- Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield - William J. Astore
- "False Flags": How Wars Are Packaged and Sold - James Corbett
- Banking on the Bomb: Investing in Nuclear Weapons - Susi Snyder and Wilbert van der Zeijden
- Recruiting America's Child Soldiers - Ann Jones
- Part II: Terracide-The War on Nature
- Nature in the Crosshairs
- Afghanistan: Bombing the Land of the Snow Leopard - Joshua Frank
- Africa: Wars on Wildlife - Dr. Jane Goodall
- El Salvador: Scorched Earth in Central America - Gar Smith
- Guam: The Tip of America's Global Spear - Catherine Lutz
- Kuwait: The War That Wounded the World - William Thomas
- Serbia: The Impact of NATO's Bombs - Phillip Frazer
- Sardinia: Bombs and Cancer in Paradise - Helen Jaccard
- Vietnam: Delivering Death to the A Luoi Valley - Elizabeth Kemf
- Collateral Damage
- Baghdad: A Civilization Torn to Pieces - Robert Fisk
- Ukraine: Civil War and Combat Pollution - Doug Weir
- Syria: Cities Reduced to Toxic Rubble - Wim Zwijnenburg and Kristine te Pas
- Wars and Refugees - Tom H. Hastings
- Civilian Victims of Killer Drones - Medea Benjamin
- The Navy's Sonic War on Whales - Pierce Brosnan
- A Field Guide to Militarism
- The Militarization of Native Lands - Winona LaDuke
- Wars Are No Longer Fought on Battlefields - David Swanson
- War on Land: Toxic Burdens and Military Exercises - Susan D. Lanier-Graham
- War on the Sea: Islands under Siege - Koohan Paik
- Wars for Sand: The Mortar of Empires - Denis Delestrac
- War at a Distance: Long-Range Missiles - Jon Letman
- War in Space: Astro-Imperialism - Karl Grossman
- The Machinery of Mayhem
- Fueling the Engines of Empire - Barry Sanders
- Superpower, Superpolluter - Tyrone Savage
- Jet Fright: The Impacts of Military Aircraft - Petra Loesch
- Land Mines: The Smallest WMDs - Jody Williams
- Explosive Arsenals: "Bomblets" to "Near-Nukes" - Helen Caldicott
- Weather as a Weapon: "Owning the Weather in 2025" - U.S. Air Force
- Nuclear Doomsday - Daniel Ellsberg
- The Aftermath
- Graveyards, Waste, and War Junk - Susan D. Lanier-Graham
- The Pentagon's Toxic Burn Pits - Katie Drummond
- America's "Downwinders" - James Lerager
- Atomic Islands and "Jellyfish Babies" - Darlene Keju-Johnson
- Haunted by Memories of War - S. Brian Willson
- The War Zone That Became a New Eden - Lisa Brady
- Part III: Ecolibrium-Pathways to a Planet at Peace
- Toward Ecolibrium
- Take the Profit Out of War - Major-General Smedley Butler
- Ecology and War - David Brower
- Why We Oppose War and Militarism - Environmentalists Against War
- In Defense of the Environment - Klaus Toepfer
- Protecting Nature from War - United Nations Environment Programme
- Strategies for a More Peaceful World
- International Peace and Environmental Organizations
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- Back Cover
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