Idan akwai rukuni na Amirkawa wanda Iraki ke fama da lafiyar lafiyar uranium, fashewar bindigogi, fararen fata, da kuma kowane nau'i na yakin yaki, zai iya kasancewa mafi yawancin mutanen da ke zaune a Gibsland, a arewacin Louisiana.
Ga yadda op-ed a cikin New York Times daga ɗayan mazaunin ya bayyana halin da suke ciki:
“Shekaru da dama, daya daga cikin manyan ma’aikata a wannan yankin shi ne Kamfanin Ammunition na Sojojin Louisiana, kimanin mil hudu daga Minden. Daga karshe Hukumar Kare Muhalli ta lissafa tsire a matsayin shafin Superfund saboda sama da shekaru 40 'tara ruwa mai tsafta wanda aka kwaso daga ayyukan masana'antu an tara shi a dunkule a kowane yanki daban-daban,' kuma an zubasu cikin 'kadada daya -16 ruwan hoda mai ruwan hoda. '”
Kuma yanzu (daga Yana):
"Bayan watanni na rikice-rikicen gwamnati tsakanin sojojin da hukumomi da tarayya, hukumar kare hakkin muhalli (EPA) ta sanar da wani shirin gaggawa na ƙona 15 miliyan fam na M6 - har zuwa 80,000 fam a rana a cikin shekara - a bude 'ƙona turare' a Camp Minden, wani tsari na duniyar da masu kare muhalli suka ce ba su da dadewa kuma an fitar da su a wasu ƙasashe. Wannan aikin zai kasance daya daga cikin manyan karamar gargajiya da aka ƙone a tarihin Amurka. "
Kowane lokaci a wani lokaci - a kusa da Vieques ko Jeju Island ko Pagan Island - Kungiyoyin kare muhalli suna fuskantar kansu suna fuskantar wata 'yar kusurwa ta mahalli mafi girman barna. Duk da yake manyan kungiyoyin kare muhalli ba zasu iya fuskantar kungiyar yakin ba har sai lokaci ya kure, ya kamata mu dauki wadannan damar mu karfafa su. Domin suna dauka sojoji kan wannan kuna. Akwai tsofaffin membobin sojojin Amurka da za su iya fada musu tasirin lafiyar konewar kasashen waje, wanda tsoffin sojoji ke kira da “sabon Orange Agent. ” EPA na iya cike masu gwagwarmaya akan wanda ya haifar da mafi yawan bala'in muhalli a cikin Amurka. Ambato: Ana farawa da mil da kuma waƙoƙi tare da kadaici.
Babban dalili a bayan wasu yaƙe-yaƙe shine sha'awar sarrafa albarkatun da ke guba duniya, musamman mai da gas. Wannan gaskiyar, sau da yawa ɓoyewa, ya kamata waɗanda muke damuwa game da makomar duniya su fuskanta. Yaƙe-yaƙe ba don kare mu ba amma don ba mu damuwa, ta ƙarni na ƙiyayya da kuma lalata duniyarmu. Samar da mafi girma a duniya, mafi yawan sojoji marasa amfani ba shine matakan tsaro ba idan har yaƙi mai kyau ya zo, amma daidai da abin da Eisenhower yayi gargadin zai kasance, janareta na yaƙe-yaƙe. $ Tiriliyan 1 Amurka ta jefa cikin injin yaƙi kowace shekara Ana buƙata don kare lafiyar muhalli na gaggawa. Kuma yaki na shirye-shiryen ba da wadatarmu ba; shi ruɗar da mu yayin tattara dukiya daga wurare kamar Gibsland. Wannan rashin nasara ne sosai ga ma'aikatar da babban aikinta shine kashe kuri'a na mutane marasa laifi yayin da muke janye mu ƙungiyoyin 'yanci.
Amma, baya ga yanayin muhalli. Kuma man fetur. Za a iya amfani da man fetur ko ƙonewa, kamar yadda yake cikin Gulf War, amma da farko ana amfani da su a kowane nau'i na injuna da ke lalatar da yanayi na duniya, yana sanya mu duka cikin haɗari. Wasu sun hada da amfani da man fetur tare da daukaka da tsinkaya na yaki, don haka baza'a iya yin amfani da makamashi wanda bazai haddasa mummunar hatsari ba a duniya kamar matsananciyar matsala da hanyoyin rashin amfani da na'urar mu. Harkokin yaki da man fetur ya wuce wannan, duk da haka. Yaƙe-yaƙe da kansu, ko yayinda aka yi yaki don man fetur, cinye mai yawa. Daya daga cikin masu sayen man fetur na duniya, a gaskiya, shine sojojin Amurka.
Sojojin Amurka suna ƙone kusan ganga 340,000 na mai kowace rana. Idan Pentagon ta kasance ƙasa, za ta sami matsayi na 38 daga 196 cikin cin mai. Babu kawai wata ƙungiya da ke zuwa kusa da sojoji a cikin wannan ko wasu nau'ikan lalata muhalli. (Amma gwada gano gaskiyar a wata hanyar zanga-zangar bututun mai.)
Yanayin da muka sani ba zai tsira da yakin nukiliya ba. Har ila yau, bazai iya tsira da yakin "na al'ada" ba, wanda ya fahimci ma'anar yaƙe-yaƙe. An riga an yi yakin da yaƙe-yaƙe da kuma bincike, jarrabawa, da kuma samar da kayan aikin da aka yi a shirye-shiryen yaƙe-yaƙe. Yaƙe-yaƙe a cikin 'yan shekarun nan sun sanya manyan yankunan da basu iya zama ba, kuma sun samar da dubban miliyoyin' yan gudun hijirar. Yakin "ya haɗu da cutar mai cututtuka a matsayin abin da ke faruwa na duniya da ke haifar da cututtuka da mutuwa," kamar yadda Jennifer ya danganta da Makarantar Makarantar Makarantar Harvard.
Watakila mafi yawan makamai da aka bari a baya ta yaƙe-yaƙe sune ma'adinai na ƙasa da kuma bama-bamai. An kiyasta miliyoyin miliyoyin da suke kwance a duniya, ba tare da la'akari da duk wani sanarwa cewa an bayyana zaman lafiya ba. Yawancin wadanda ke fama da su sune fararen hula, yawancin su yara.
Abin mamaki ne don samun kungiyoyi a yanzu da kuma sake kalubalanci bangarori daban-daban na yakin hallaka. Below ne mai wasika cewa kowace zaman lafiya da muhalli da zaman lafiya a duniya su rattaba hannu kan:
Cynthia Giles, Mataimakin Mataimakin
Ofishin Harkokin Tsaro da Tabbatar da Tabbatar da Kula da Muhalli ta Amurka
Ginin William Jefferson Clinton
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Shafin Mail: 2201A
Washington, DC 20460 Giles-Aa.cynthia@Epa.gov
SAN DA MUHAMMAR KARANTA
RE: An gabatar da Gidan M6 masu ƙonawa a Minden, Louisiana
Mataimakin Mataimakin Mataimakin Giles, Giles,
Mu, 'yan kungiyoyi masu zaman kansu, sun shiga yankunan Louisiana, ma'aikata da iyalansu a kiran su don samun sauƙi mafi sauƙi don bude wuta na wasassun hatsari a Camp Minden.
Muna adawa da shirin da Hukumar Kare Muhalli ta Amirka ta yi wa OPEN BURN 15 miliyan fam na masu watsi da M6 a Camp Minden, Louisiana. Ta hanyar ma'anar, bude wuta ba shi da ikowar iska kuma zai haifar da sakin ƙananan haɗari da kuma ruɗarin abubuwan da ke cikin yanayin. M6 ya ƙunshi kusan 10 kashi dinitrotoluene (DNT) wadda aka kwatanta a matsayin gawawwakin mutum .1
Damuwa game da hadarin lafiyar lafiyar mutum wanda aka bude ta hanyar budewa / budewa da kuma tasirin muhalli a kan iska, ƙasa, da ruwa sun buƙaci sojojin su gano da kuma inganta hanyoyin da za su bude bude wuta / budewar detonation.2 Bugu da ƙari, kamar yadda Shirye-shiryen EPA na ba da damar kiyayewa da sufuri zuwa wani wuri mai budewa, za'a iya komawa wannan wuri zuwa wata magungunan magani ko tsari.
Yayin da muke goyon baya ga shirin EPA na bukatar sojojin Amurka don tsaftacewa da kuma ajiye wadannan abubuwan da ba a dace ba, ba za mu goyi bayan budewa a matsayin wani magani wanda ya ba da hadarin gaske ga lafiyar mutum da kuma muhalli.
1U.S. Hukumar kare muhalli, Fayil Fahimmin Bayanai, Dinitrotoluene (DNT), Janairu 2014.
2 Rundunar Sojojin Kasuwanci ta Ingila na Gine-ginen Gine-ginen Gine-ginen Nazarin Harkokin Kasuwancin Harkokin Gine-gine na kamfanin USCERL 98 / 104, Sauran Bayani don Gudanar da Ƙunƙwasawa / Bayyana Bayani na Kasuwanci Na Ƙarshe, A taƙaitaccen Harkokin Kimiyya na Yanzu, Agusta 1998.
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Marylee M. Orr, Daraktan Daraktan, Louisiana Environmental Action Network / Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, Louisiana
Devawn Palmer-Oberlender, 'Yan Masana Muhalli na New River Valley, Virginia Pamela Miller, Babban Darakta, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Alaska
Craig Williams, Kayan Wuta Kayan Gwaji, Kentucky
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Wilbur Slockish, Ilimin Kogin Columbia da Tattalin Arziki, Oregon
Al Gedicks, Babban Sakatare, Wisconsin Resources Protection Council, Wisconsin
Doris Bradshaw, Shirin Soxics, Tennessee
Peter Galvin, Cibiyar Nazarin halittu, California
LeVonne Stone, Cibiyar Shari'a ta Yanki mai Lafiya ta Fort Ord, California
Marylia Kelley, Daraktan Daraktan, Tri-Valley CAREs (Kasuwanci game da Muhalli Radioactive), California
Josh Fast, Malami, PermanentGardens.com, Louisiana
Ronnie Cummins, icungiyar Masu Kula da Masu Amfani da kwayoyin, Minnesota
Paul Orr, Ƙananan Kogin Mississippi, Louisiana
Marcia Halligan, Kickapoo Peace Circle, Wisconsin
Kathy Sanchez, EJ RJ, Tewa mata United org., New Mexico
J. Gilbert Sanchez, Babban Jami'in Harkokin Tsaro na {asa, New Mexico
David Keith, Valley Citizens for Safe Environment, Massachusetts
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Stephen Brittle, shugaban kasa, Kada ku ci Arizona
Alison Jones Chaim, Daraktan Daraktan, Kwayoyi na Social Responsibility Wisconsin
Jill Johnston, Jami'in Kasuwancin Kudu maso Yamma, Texas
Robert Alvarado, Kwamitin Tsarin Ma'aikatar Muhalli, Texas
Phyllis Hasbrouck, Shugaban, Wakilin Kasuwancin Waubesa, Wisconsin
John LaForge, Nukewatch, Wisconsin
Guy Wolf, Co-Darakta, DownRiver Alliance, Wisconsin
Don Timmerman & Roberta Thurstin, Casa Maria Katolika Ma'aikaci, Wisconsin
LT Janar Russel Honore (Ret), GreenARMY, Louisiana
John LaForge, Gidauniyar cigaba, Wisconsin
Paul F. Walker, Ph.D., Daraktan, Tsaro da Tsabtace Muhalli, Green Cross International, Washington, DC
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