Chapter 6: Environmental Health

War and terrorism is something that is not taken lightly, every war results in human tragedies; as well as causes damage to our environment. War causes people to lose their lives, their physical and mental health, and some are expelled from their communities (Barker,2003). When we think of war or we hear of what is going on in Iraq, our first thought is usually on the innocent lives or " the tax payers money", we seldemly stop to think about what this destruction is doing to the environment. Warfare includes destruction of the environment, defoliations or destruction of forest trees, pollution and/or destruction or alteration of water sources. The chemicals that we use during this warfare are destroying the environment. Chemical weapons are chemical substances which have been employed because of their direct toxic effects on man, animals and plants (Barker,2003). These chemicals destroy the environment as well as cause harm to us humans. Violence is not the answer, and this chemical warfare has caused many of the environmental problems that we face today. We cannot stop the war, nor do we have control over this; but we can express and pass along that violence is not the answer..because in the end..the violence is what harms us as humans and harms the environment that we live in.