{"id":9580,"date":"2011-09-23T01:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2011-09-23T01:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:29:53","slug":"war-and-the-tragedy-of-the-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9580","title":{"rendered":"War and the Tragedy of the Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons\/1312405464\">http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons\/1312405464<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>War and the Tragedy of the Commons<\/h2>\n<div>Thursday 4 August 2011<\/div>\n<div>by: H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout | Series<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>In this seven-part series of articles on each environmental impact of US militarism, scientist and author Patricia Hynes provides an overview of modern, military pollution and the use of natural resources with a central focus on the US military superpower, a power without precedent or competitor. From Superfund and former nuclear weapons sites in the US to Vieques, Agent Orange, depleted uranium &#8211; particularly in Iraq &#8211; biowarfare research and the use of fossil fuels in routine military training and wars, Hynes examines the war machine as the true tragedy of the commons. -TO\/lt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons-part-7-military-assault-global-climate\/1315418406\" target=\"_blank\">War and the Tragedy of the Commons, Part 7: The Military Assault on Global Climate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/landmines-and-cluster-bombs-weapons-mass-destruction-slow-motion\/1314637186\" target=\"_blank\">War and the Tragedy of the Commons, Part 6: <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/landmines-and-cluster-bombs-weapons-mass-destruction-slow-motion\/1314637186\" target=\"_blank\">Landmines and Cluster Bombs: <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/landmines-and-cluster-bombs-weapons-mass-destruction-slow-motion\/1314637186\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/depleted-uranium-weapon-use-persists-despite-deadly-side-effects\/1313781795\" target=\"_blank\">War and the Tragedy of the Commons, Part 5: Depleted Uranium Weapon Use Persists, Despite Deadly Side Effects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons-biological-weapons-bargaining-devil-part-four\/1313441802\" target=\"_blank\">War and the Tragedy of the Commons, Part 4: Biological Weapons: Bargaining with the Devil<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons-part-3\/1312921264\" target=\"_blank\">War and the Tragedy of the Commons: Part 3: Chemical Warfare: Agent Orange<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons-part-2-military-hazardous-waste-sickens-land-and-people\/1311868811#1\" target=\"_blank\">War and the Tragedy of the Commons, Part 2: Military Hazardous Waste Sickens Land and People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-true-tragedy-commons\/1311181265\" target=\"_blank\">War and the True Tragedy of the Commons: Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/war-and-tragedy-commons\/1312405464 War and the Tragedy of the Commons Thursday 4 August 2011 by: H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout | Series In this seven-part series of articles on each environmental impact of US militarism, scientist and author Patricia Hynes provides an overview of modern, military pollution and the use of natural resources with a central focus on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9580\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;War and the Tragedy of the Commons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-9580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9582,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/revisions\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}