Essay On Environmental Effects Of Ww2

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-Looking at World War 2, the physical environmental effects from the war, was the hazardous waste that penetrated into the earth. The bacteria from everything began to affect people giving them diseases. The global war, left trash and hazardous materials strewn all over the streets and homes left in destruction. Including nuclear waste, and environmental toxins. This polluted the air, and fuel leakages which affected the soil and water. Looking at Today, the physical environmental problems have been similar and other environmental problems have occurred as well pollution from cars, and trains. There is still bacteria floating in the air, etc. Wars today still cause destruction constantly affecting the air flow, and purity of cities.
-The importance of the environment’s purity is a serious problem, and has been one for a long time. For if the air isn’t pure than it starts to affect the citizens that live their. Causing lung problems, diseases, cancers etc. It's been an important strive since way back in the 40s to clean up the destruction of wars, attacks, etc. World War 2 had effected million of people, and affected the condition of the earth. For it changed the air quality, and most of all changed the atmosphere …show more content…

Even Though war is more infrequently and effects more foreign independent countries, it’s still relevant. Chemical warfare is a big one, that was widely used in WW2, which destructed the physical earth at the time. Which was not used by the US in WW2 but by other countries. US has used some ways of chemical warfare today, but some in secret and some slightly without huge notice. But the act of weapons is still around today. Another factor is Infrastructure Collapse, which was destruction of many wastewater treatment plants, for example, severely degrades regional water quality. Where chemical manufacturing plants were bombed, leading to more