EcoDem Siena: “Ukraine: a conflict that affects everything and everyone, including the environment”
SIENA. The Sienese Democratic ecologists, in strongly condemning any recourse to war which is always unjustified and unjustifiable and in recalling the values of peace and dialogue, intend to pay attention and also raise awareness of the often irreversible costs that a conflict like the one in Ukraine causes to our environment.
We watch in horror as whole civilian buildings collapse, humans flee besieged by hunger and cold, and rubble accumulating in the cities and fertile plains of this country – a terrifying transformation of Ukraine’s natural habitat. And all this happens while Europe is committed to the most stringent environmental parameters to trigger the energy transition, we then ask ourselves: what probable environmental costs we will have to face for this anti-environmental conflict.
History should teach us and make us reflect on how many tons of chemical agents were used during the world war and during the conflict in Vietman, men nervino not only killed men but also animals, as well as the use of and forestecides to defoliate to flush out the enemy has embraced forests which have never grown again and which have caused the loss of many species of birds and mammals.
Even today, contamination and traces of oil can be found in the Atlantic Ocean dating back to the shipwrecks that occurred during the Second World War. The flood in the Yellow River in 1938, created by the nationalist government in central China during the first phase of the Second Sino-Japanese War in an attempt to stop the advance of Japanese forces, has been called the “greatest act of environmental warfare in history. “. Refugee camps also cause serious damage to the environment due to their disordered anthropogenic pressure, starting with the pollution of the aquifers produced by makeshift cesspools. Then there is the air pollution and toxic dust produced by military vehicles and the use of weapons, as well as the contamination of water sources, not to mention the environmental costs related to nuclear power (in Ukraine there are 15 reactors nuclear power plants with the real possibility that they will be shot down).
The destruction of ecosystems will last for centuries and, as Democratic Ecologists, we also intend to pay attention to the issue of the exploitation of the environment in warfare, a not second important one which we do not seem to have learned about from history.
This is also why we too have the conflict in Ukraine, and all the forces of dialogue must be put in place to stop it.
The Spokesperson Prov.le
Gianni Porcellotti