Pollution Wars
#wargasm #warecology #militarism #militarypollution The tremendous bravery of the Ukrainian people is stirring to see. But these types of conflicts increase significantly military budgets and therefore pollution, even after the fighting has stopped. Why not reduce military budgets drastically and therefore reduce the likelihood of these sorts of conflicts between in the first place? And if there are quite a few people who agree with this point of view, why doesn’t the topic trend more frequently on social media? * Pollution Wars 1 (https://youtu.be/t90a8DoIW3Q) is a short, non-videopoem piece by Finn Harvor, uploaded in early 2022. It functions more as a direct, essayistic or commentary-style video rather than one of his hybrid literary/experimental “authorial movies” or videopoems. The video explicitly links industrialism, militarism, and environmental pollution. Harvor argues that wars and heightened military budgets dramatically increase pollution—not only during active ...