songs are eternal ilkley rule suites hotel room pacific resort and spa. in this real beauty is available in some of the children of the reus solomon hotel jerusalem. from moscow this is r t it's given over in here tonight from the headlines rebel forces fight on against gadhafi loyalists saying they're making progress into one of his last strongholds the city of sirte but many in the capital tripoli say they're now living in fear of so-called freedom fighters. we are the big stories of the way washington launches its missile defense plans into eastern europe with romania turkey and poland signed up to host the u.s. she'll put moscow reiterate security concerns and calls for urgent talks. moscow and london agree differences shouldn't start when doing business during the first trip by u.k. leader here to russia or six years not

a million dollar contracts were sealed during david cameron's visit. but ethnic tensions between serbia and breakaway possible reach boiling point as disputed border posts is seen as by casa and forces local said set up barricades angry at the deployment of e.u. and possible customs officials in the front here which previously under serbian control. it's nine thirty one pm moscow time starting investigates how conflicts can lead fragile ecosystem struggling to survive and why no one's telling a story the second part of our special report on air right now for you. displacement is another of the war's consequences the forced migration of civilians has profound impacts on the natural environment. this image was taken in one thousand nine hundred six after the pens in the in government decided to close camps for rwanda in reference to a column of refugees this photo stretched for twenty seven miles to the rwandan

border. these women are i.d.p.'s internally displaced persons although they have fled the genocide in darfur province they have not crossed the sudanese border and are not considered refugees under international law collect wood for cooking they must risk being attacked by the gentian weak government backed arab militias that will target the sudan's black population. with their heavy demand for would be sudan six million internally displaced persons head further stressed the landscape already degraded by climate change and certification. internal displacement is a growing problem in iraq an estimated two million civilians have been displaced since the start of operation iraqi freedom i.d.p. camps have strung up in the outskirts of national baghdad and nineveh many lack

potable water medicine and proper waste disposal. the real risk of not addressing the environmental problems is that people simply have to leave their homes if they don't have wood to burn to cook with to heat their homes with they don't have water to drink they leave and you see massive displacement happening we call it environmental refugees if you will but people are leaving their homes this creates a demand on resources it creates a demand on infrastructure and ultimately displacement undermines the peace process in the vietnam war which the. the american war. there's a clash and was a clash between them very highly second a logical society in a largely agrarian society physically had a lot of arrogance thought would go in and take control blow up were needed to blow

rock and do basically what we wanted. one of the main reasons i refused to carry a weapon was that i could not see any justification for the destruction of the lands at the level that i saw in infantry platoon. was mainly moved from place to place by helicopter the helicopters would fly high so as not to draw ground fire and when you're at a high altitude you can look around on the land and see it for miles and miles and miles in the kuchi area especially there were times and places where i would look out and see nothing but a ravenous landscape bomb craters one after the other so close together and you

see little islands of agreement that had not been bombed. i grew up in a small town in illinois. a town surrounded by corn fields and fields very beautiful towns along the nile river. and when i saw from i in the sky the destruction to the right and i couldn't help wondering what if that had happened our corn field our being fields i would really feel if that happens. yeah and. i was i.

i went to that war knowing nothing at all but when i saw that level of destruction i could not. that this was going to come to democracy that this was a line in the sand was going to be. because of a friend that i wast whatever little thing i had in the war being noble in any sense. it's. all the way in

the pacific i was the tiny at all of pick a day in a box a lot doesn't spot i'll be on beefing up mankind has credible thoughts and will go into a bit of a god of many ships goes the navy mandated by goats figs and like rats awaiting the atomic blast. i mean maybe a personnel to carry out. a deal with the island as whole lived on a japanese mandate not ready yet now to jamie the. united states car now wants to turn its great. power in something for the benefit. and. here. are the first step. i think it's generally the case that the greater and more durable impacts come from

preparation for war rather than combat itself. but defense mines performed to support the men who march and sail and flood but the magnetation region still part of the river the life of the nation axis must spring in the forest and trees must fall for the sawmills wait for law and builders right for lumber states feel the need to be militarily prepared and in the modern world that has been building a military industrial complex building a pollution intensive industry to generate military goods one of the best examples of how the business and preparing for war can have long lasting environmental impacts is the nuclear weapons programs around the world that have been in place since the early one nine hundred forty s. wherever this is happened there have been environmental problems with radioactive

waste. which no one anywhere has satisfactorily sought. i grew up near at hand which is their education which the kid in washington state when the nuclear bombs were developed their little thought was given to what to do about waste that would result afterwards indeed now the u.s. department of energy calls him fired the world's largest environmental cleanup project stanford washington is the site where the united states says senshi accumulated its nuclear waste mostly from weapons work also from nuclear power and other radioactive related industries hanford was constructed in one nine hundred forty two under the top secret manhattan project its location along the columbia river provided a ready source of water for cooling nuclear reactors hanford engineering works

produced the plutonium used in the trinity test device and in the fat man released on night a sucky production of plutonium intensified during the cold war one hundred sixty three dual purpose n. reactor was constructed to generate nuclear power were civilian use the reactor building completed in nineteen sixty three. with me. to break construction. and i think it's very appropriate that we come in. with their work it's been done develop the military strength with the united states and the find a chance to strike a blow a piece of time a chance to strike a blow for a better life rock out of this this is a great national anthem i can assure you. and from the work we began today by rep and might work throughout the night for the pilot chris. relies on the united states we're looking at providing security for our people.

it operate in a light in the throat you know. that the. since the production of tony i'm ceased in one nine hundred eighty seven cleanup has been the only mission at the head for a nuclear reservation there are fifty three million gallons of high level radioactive and chemical waste and third stored in one hundred seventy seven underground tanks seventy of these tanks have leaked spilling proximately one million gallons of waste into the soil. after washington is a wasteland of leaking radioactive waste that will be with us for decades and decades probably centuries to come and it's currently costing us billions of dollars to just try to contain let alone clean up in truth it's never going to be cleaned up and some of the radioactive waste will remain potentially lethal for

twenty four thousand years which is any way you slice it a long time. the united states used to stockpile chemical weapons unbeknown stew most of the world in germany and in okinawa with u.s. troops in japan and those two stockpiles which were never used of course were shipped back secretly to just an asshole in the pacific and one of the world's largest incinerators was built in the middle of a wildlife refuge and that process in burning those chemical weapons from okinawa in germany took place in one thousand nine hundred two the year two thousand john snapple has found it still is being studied but that's actually a very interesting case of

a unique coral reef really in the middle of the pacific ocean it's about seven hundred fifty miles west of hawaii that was used as a launch site for atmospheric nuclear testing. the full article for bluegill a one of a column casualties. as a step. which caused the fire but more competition. missile warheads were almost sure. when at least one of the atmospheric tests with the hydrogen bomb blew up on the launch pad a good part of just natural it was left with highly radioactive plutonium debris twenty years later all the agent orange that was all dumped on joints are stored as

they say on john snap's all that really over time became a dump site from agent orange and now thirdly we put chemical weapons on the charts not all this national wildlife refuge under the fish and wildlife department has really been used and abused by the military over the ages. only a few hours before it was wiped out in awesome it was a fish and little petting finale it had made before you what to do in such as shelters the people calmly waited all unaware that already descending upon them was the atom bomb. but it was all over for an off square miles of that awesome moment but unknown blasted to extinction and all shattering devastation in which was wrong that time again. radiation affects not

bend has to be imprinted on walls in front of john like frozen shadows allowed outlined on a building the design of her dress left on the body of a woman who would die in a few days anyhow. because of. the radio activity. members of the so cold nuclear club states known to have detonated nuclear weapons either the best or foreign soil among them at least bows have still been conducted in the atmosphere underwater underground and in space. we're retaining tens of thousands of nuclear weapons when probably a few hundred would be enough for deterrence we have nuclear weapons far in excess of any conceivable need for as the strongest

conventional power by orders of magnitude in the world for this country to say that we need nuclear weapons what does that signal to the rest of the world. that they must be very valuable and that they probably would want to get them selves united islamists any nation retained sneak new weapons other nations who want and a few years. as we go about was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program and then came the buildup in vietnam. and i watched this program broken and it was a raid as if it was some i don't litter go play thing about suicide you gone mad on war and i knew that america would never in the past the necessary energy is in rehab military action of its. star long as adventures like vietnam

continue to draw men and skills and money right from demonic destructive suction to. the world's currently spending somewhere around two trillion us dollars on the war and preparations for war and this is enormous to fish for a fraction of that amount we could have clean water sanitation education called health care for everybody on the planet so that's a chair of a sheet of resources. any war that takes place on a matter how large or how small has enormous costs to it and we're talking in lebanon into the billions of dollars of cleaning up just a fifteen day war let alone you know the years and years of warfare in iraq or afghanistan or vietnam or wherever else that may take place so the costs of war really. if they well understood and in most cases they're not but if they're well understood should preclude the war to begin with the war is not worth the cost in

terms of lives but also long term environmental and public health damage for decades to come. yes if you will is a particular problem in this time a concern that climate change just one example i think illustrates it well if we imagine one f. sixteen fighter. flying for just under one it uses approximately twice as much oil as he every january can see dissent he says in he's ok if you hear. the f. sixteen is just one machine in one branch of the military to take another example the army's abrams tank weighs sixty eight times requires two gallons of fuel per mile all told the united states department of defense burns some three hundred fifty thousand barrels of oil per day making it the world's largest single consumer

the defense department uses i think somewhat over two thirds of the energy. that the us government. uses and uses them for ships and tanks and planes and heating buildings and a whole host of other things. but probably the largest impact that all the defense effort has is a diversion of intellectual and or g. and our monetary resources away from trying to solve and address some of the long term problems. in sea level is also rising and in louisiana we've been losing thirty square miles a year roughly. of land i mean if the united states were losing that to some foreign power we'd have the military out there defending him.

we often ask the question where were you on september eleventh well i remember that very clearly because i was in new york and i was there specifically to give a bunch an address at the new york times on a new book eco economy building an economy for the year. well by mid-morning that much was already history terrorism is a threat no question about it but on my list of threats to our future. there are there are many more serious threats climate change being an obvious one population growth being another the economy does not exist in the vacuum it is entirely dependent on the earth's natural systems and resources and if we damage and destroy those systems and resources then the economy will eventually decline and one day collapse the challenge is not to that's not a high tech military response to terrorism that will work the challenge is to build

an environmentally sustainable equitable society that will do more to undermine terrorism than any possible high tech military weapon systems we can divide us. the other exciting thing is that almost everything we need to do has already been done by at least one country. in his book plan b. lester brown uses scientific and economic studies together with data from the world bank the united states government and the united nations draft a global budget for storing your we look at the two sort of major components of what we think it's going to take to create a sustainable future one is poverty eradication and population stabilization and we treat those as one because we think they're closely related when we put the budgets together for eradicating poverty stabilizing population plus what we call the earth restoration budget it comes to

a total of one hundred sixty one billion dollars now that's a lot of money it's a third of the u.s. military budget. it's a third of the u.s. military budget and the us military budget is half of the global military budget which is now without a trillion dollars and if you asked the question could we reduce the u.s. military budget by a third. and shift those expenditures into poverty eradication population stabilization earth restoration i think it's clear that we would do far more to ensure our future that if we just stay with a half trillion dollars of u.s. taxpayer money going to military purposes. the environment is an integral part of our national security and i don't mean that in a trite and cliched way our resource constraints even if we were to defend

ourselves physically we need those resources and if we're not going to be able to preserve them it is strategically tactically and just commonsense wise and big mistake as security concerns are discussed the environment is immediately dropped and people say well we have to move forward because this is a matter of our survival and what we have been suggesting is that the environment itself has a very survivalist take element to it so protecting the environment should be considered at that level. environmental harms should be considered what we call it in political theory common overs and if you are at a crossroads you have two cars that have divergent interests one is going in one direction the other in the other direction they are not going in the same direction but they have a common aversion which is getting into an accident. and they're likely to cooperate over that common version whether it's through

a stop sign or from some kind of traffic regimen. even sides they do not like to cooperate on other things and have divergent interests they may still have common of versions. rising temperatures rising seas and intensifying storms eroding coastlines falling water tables vanishing habitats and species the broad threats facing us in the twenty first century are environmental yet the environment is consistently overshadowed by the immediacy of war and preparations for war it is an extremely difficult to get the nation mobilized against something that is a long term as opposed to a short term problem. as long as there is no emphasis or insufficient emphasis on the national leadership to protect the environment you probably cannot expect the military to give their high priority what we're looking at now is

a threat to our probable civilization and saving. our civilization is not a spectator sport we're going to change the system now and that means become politically active it means supporting political candidates who understand the issues of the do something about it it means letting elected representatives whether members of the city council or members of congress or part of that's around the world let them know about our concerns and what we expect them to do it after this is going to decide whether we make or not we have to become politically active .

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