American Individualism: Effects Of War On The Environment

Effects of War War cannot be described only as destruction and tampering and corruption in the land, sea and air. War causes greater harm, it destroy homelands and kill people and other living things. It simply steals the beauty of nature and has a very long effect on lands. The same for what happened in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. What happened in the Iraqi invasion led to so much damage to the side of the environment, and one of the serious consequences of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait is the occurrence of one of the largest oil pollution disasters in modern history. As a result, the disaster of oil pollution affected three environmental disasters, which are human loss, air pollution, and chronic diseases. One of the leading effects of wars to the environment is human loss. In the article, “American Individualism” Hoover (n.d) writes that “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.” Wars always comes with sacrifices. There were people who disappeared and were not found till this day. Many family didn’t have a closure to their children and love ones, they were simply just taken from them
Because the Iraqi invasion war took a rather long period, numerous types of weapons were brutally used, which are absolutely include some environmental unclean agents. Human bodies and health were savagely affected. It was confident that there were infections of different forms of cancer diseases during the period of war. The rate of infections were higher than all periods before the war. People should have concern in improving and evolving the environment and focus on the treatment of the environmental impacts of the wars. If scientists were able to find a total solution to refresh the air and remove the toxic, various diseases will