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Environmentally Friendly Bombs

Finally, we are greening up our military industrial complex! Live Science reports:

TNT, RDX and other explosives commonly used in military and industrial applications often generate toxic gases upon detonation that pollute the environment. Moreover, the explosives themselves are toxic and can find their way into the environment due to incomplete detonation and as unexploded ordnance. They are also extremely dangerous to handle, as they are highly sensitive to physical shock, such as hard impacts and electric sparks.

If we reduce the costs of war, do we engage in more of it? Of course the sorts of governments that try to avoid externalities (or rather "collateral damage") are probably those that would also try to avoid war generally.

Now that we've won a victory for Mother Earth, maybe we could have "justice offsets" that governments could purchase when they kill innocent people.

/KDR

Posted by Kevin D. Rollins on May 27, 2008 12:32 PM |

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