Makes you wonder if dropping them all over the damn place is such a good idea.
Who cares? The victim’s dehumanized anyway. /s
Expose? Was the bomb doing something clandestine?
Exposed to the air / elements I guess?
Fueled by climate change, the fires and explosions show that the continent’s “climatic luck” is running out, said Sarah Njeri, a peace and conflict scholar at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Steady temperatures and predictable rainfall once ensured that most buried weapons stayed dormant.
“Climate change is now doing the work of unburying and reactivating what was previously stable,” Njeri said. Fires can ignite old munitions but can also burn away the scrub and brush that hides them.
Expose as in ‘exhibitionist’, not as in ‘spy’.
Stupid, sexy unexploded ordinance
Every year across the nation, Belgium’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Destruction Service responds to more than 3,000 calls and disposes of 200 to 250 tons of munitions left over from both world wars.
That’s a lot.
Yep, this is the usual scenario in Slovenia as well and makes firefighting much more problematic and dangerous than it already is. Luckily we bought a bunch of air tractors to do the job from the above.
After we’re gone, subsequent species will discover a mustard gas cylinder, and think it’s some advanced sign of civilization.
Then it’ll go off and they’ll hate us as much as we hate ourselves.
It was late Sat night and I was in my cups and being silly.
