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This article is brief, but I think that it is interesting. It shows action by the UN to try to determine what the environmental impacts of of the Gulf war were by awarding several countries, including Saudi Arabia, $243 million. It looks as though during the 90-91' occupation of Kuwait incurred $46 billion in environmental claims. That is a staggering number that raises some interesting questions. How do you assign a dollar amount to environmental damage caused by war? $46 billion is no small figure. How was this number calculated? I think that it is not only important to look at these impacts of war in resources such as number of birds and trees dying, but also in economic terms.
ok it's Iraq but it's interesting
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Here is a link to a blog put up by Morgan on a different Blog. There are a
number of entries that tie more to your topic than theirs. Enjoy.
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I hadn't really considered the economic impact, but now that you bring it up, it should be one of the first things thought about. I really wonder what environmental concerns Saudi Arabia has as a direct result of the Iraqi connflict Or countries like Jordan, or Syria for that matter. I don't often thing of them as being directly impacted. The literal implications of that impact, like the results from the studies that are being funded, would be very telling. I also wonder, once those studies have been conducted with this UN funding, if the results will then require even more UN funding, and how much that amount would be, as well as how it would be distributed.
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