HIST 2250 Lecture Notes - Constitutional Basis Of Taxation In Australia, Chemical Warfare, Global Warming
10 Apr 2013
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Impact of warfare on the natural world: a historical summary richard p. tucker. Acceleration of the capacity of states to inflict violence. Acceleration of destructive capacity of military tech, and its demands on natural resources for the production and use of weapons: recognize military aspects of societies in peacetime. Warfare (& its link w changes in natural world) must be understood in terms of systematic links to broader trends in human history. Enviro impacts of war always specific to the characteristics of particular ecosystems. Enviro impacts of warfare rather than the ecological causes/settings of battle present back through the millennia to early human times when nature shaped human life far more than humans were able to reshape nature. Tribal warfare highly localized & tools had limited destructive power. Borders fought over for control of food & other resources, shifts in control of territory often. Attackers raid field& food supplies (get resources & cripple foes) = high mortality rates.
