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War, Ecology, and Emerging Intelligence

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Dana Visalli is a professional botanist and an organic market gardener in Washington State.  He redirects his financial resources away from war and toward life-sustaining endeavors because it seems like the intelligent thing to do.  More of his reading material is available at www.methownaturalist.com, he can be reached at Email address removed   For war tax refusal see www.nwtrcc.org Â

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1. The last sentence is from Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day.'

2. U.S. Military Impact on Planet and People Philippines (1889-1902) http://www.opednews.com/populum/# of people killed: 220,000 (11)

WWI(1914-1918) http://www.opednews.com/populum/# of people killed: 16 million + 21 million wounded (12)

Total allied bomb tonnage: 16,000 tons (36)

WWII(1939-1945) http://www.opednews.com/populum/# of people killed: 70 million (13) + >100 million wounded (extrapolation of data)

Total allied bomb tonnage: 2.7 million tons, total US bombs 1.6 million tons (36)

Atomic bombs: 2, killing about 200,000 immediately and another 200,000 over time

Total Napalm: Unknown but considerable

Korea (prewar 1945-1950, Korean War 1950-1953) http://www.opednews.com/populum/# of people killed in the pre-war insurgency: 100,000 (15, White, from Chomsky & Cumings, averaging)

http://www.opednews.com/populum/# of people killed in the war: 2.5 million Koreans, - million Chinese, 36,000 Americans (11)

Bomb tonnage: 386,000 tons, total for all munitions 698,000 tons

Napalm: 600,000 tons, about 250,000 lb per day

Defoliant: mostly the above-mentioned napalm.

Refugees during war: 8 million (ref http://www.opednews.com/populum/#55 + unmentioned refugees in North Korea from urban bombing)

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