PEACE AND GOODWILL

This has been an extremely frustrating week for me. My computer crashed last week. After a lengthy and somewhat heated discussion with the services desk at Dell, I find that my three year warranty, something I had trusted to see me through my computer problems, is practically worthless. Despite hours of phone calls and work, we sill have a set of programmes which are now two years old, drivers that are equally antiquated and no ability to connect to the Internet. At least my family have come up trumps; my son spending most of his free time trying to sort out the mess and my husband lending me his works laptop so that I could get this article done and online.

The Christmas message speaks of peace and goodwill. I want to show you how both of these virtues effect the environment in which we live.

Peace

I am sure that we can all agree that peace is a good thing to have on humanitarian grounds; however, I am sure some of you are wondering how it could possibly effect the environment. Well here are a few examples:

BIODIVERSITY
1. War kills people
   War kills a variety of people No-one is guaranteed safely. However, it kills far more young men than any other group in general. These young men, who should be the fathers of the next generation, are destroyed on battlefields, leaving the human race that much poorer. Population levels are often quick to catch up after war years – think of the Baby Boomers after the Second World War – but many fine qualities which a promising young soldier might hand down to his son or daughter is lost.
2. War kills animals
   There are few weapons designed specifically to kill human beings. Bombs are pretty indiscriminate. They will kill living things around the site of the blast or destroy habitat. Guns may catch animals in the cross-fire. Cross country troop transportation can turn green fields into quagmire. There are even weapons designed to destroy forests like napalm. Explosions can also have an unsettling effect on expectant female animals causing them to miscarry. It is important, therefore, to think of war as more than just a human tragedy.

SUSTAINABILITY
1. Wars squanders resources War uses up masses of raw materials which could be used for other purposes. Worse, it uses these resources to make weapon which are destroyed in their use. This means that these weapons have continually be replaced, using yet more resources. Tons of raw materials, used to make short-lived
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