Writing Homework Help

Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives

The Environmental Footprint of War

1.

What is the primary goal of war and how is the environment involved in this goal?

2.

What is involved in search and destroy activities?

3.

In what ways is the military impacting the 6

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mass extinction of species?

4.

What is Protocol 1 that was added to the Geneva Convention?

Is the military abiding by this new article?

How or how not?

5.

What is “ghost landscape”?

6.

What is “Operation Ranch Hand” and what were the effects on people land?

Was there any compensation?

7.

What is the “Pacific Legacy” from WWII and how might it affect our future?

8.

What are UXOs and how big of a problem is this?

9.

“A landmine is a perfect soldier. It doesn’t need food or water. It doesn’t take any

salary or rest, but it lies in wait for its victim for 30 years or more.”

What are landmines?

How many remain in Cambodian soil alone?

10.

How many landmines are still hidden around the world?

How many people are harmed?

11.

What is the impact of war on public (civilian) health?

12.

How does the displacement of people affect the people and the environment?

What are IDP’s?

13.

What are “ancestral homelands” in Vietnam?

How did war affect them?

14.

What is the US nuclear legacy on islands, around weapons production plants, etc.?

In Bikini Island?

At Hanford Plant in Washington?

At Johnson Atoll?

Hiroshima/Nagasaki?

15.

How many weapons are stockpiled?

What are the consequences of these stockpiles and what must be done with them?

16.

How much does it cost to clean up after a war?

17.

How much fossil fuel does the military use?

18.

Countries not at war have been able to do what other social and environmental

projects?

All papers need to be typed (exception for In Class Notes, which can be handwritten) using 12-point font, double spaced