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Human, War And The Environment Under High-Tech Conditions

Posted on:2006-07-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J JiaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360245975334Subject:World History
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The advancement of science and technology and the military revolution are not only interactive as preconditions, but also develop together. The war, bloody politics, has never changed its basic characters with the advancement of science and technology. It shows not only grave clashes in human societies, but also contradictions between human and environment in ecosystems. Compared with prior war modes, high-tech war takes a new look of humanism, but it also represents a more strained situation between human and environment clearly.During the Gulf War 1991, both sides have abused science and technology, the degree of environmental damage caused by them was beyond both the self-restoration ability of natural environment and the rebuilt ability of human beings. Gulf War was a war inside human society, and also a war between human and nature, but the latter went on after the former ended. Both allied forces and Iraqi troops destructed environment of Gulf, they shared the results following the environmental damage with civilians at last.After surveying high-tech wars proceeding with the relationship between human and environment, we find the limitation of modern war ethics. War ethics need environmental ethic factors to enrich and update. This will help us to limit human behaviors and alleviate the harm which human wars bring to environment and finally to human itself.
Keywords/Search Tags:high-tech wars, the Gulf War 1991, environmental problems, oil spills, oil fires, the Great Saddam Belt, war ethics, environmental ethics
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