The Daily Planet #128: War and the non-human world

Wars are bad for people, but they are bad for everyone else too. As today's link says:

War contaminates the conditions for life itself

Modern warfare is an environmental catastrophe with "toxic legacies" that persist for decades. Beyond the immediate human toll, conflict destroys the essential systems for life such as water networks, sanitation, and farmland, leaving behind contaminated soil and unsafe water that render habitats nearly uninhabitable.

The US-Israel war on Iran and how war and conflict are destroying the environment - Greenpeace International

The environmental impacts of the war on Iran and Lebanon illustrate again that war does not only kill people and destroy homes. It also damages the systems that make life possible. Water, climate, biodiversity are all harmed.