Endangered Seas And The Tactic Of Environmentalist-Pacifists

The disputes over seas and islands seem to be more than strictly political struggles and instead appear as the result of concerns to save the sea environment. These disputes are about nations wanting to claim or own the very last and rare natural sea-water bodies in the planet, given that the future in a warming globe is desertification of the seas.

Also, the environment's status will become important in planning the trajectory of war or dispute. Environmental groups will become more assertive in their publications on the impact of war on the natural environment. The smoke from explosives becomes problematic for being a pollutant. War becomes problematic for being harmful to the natural environment.

A kind of primitive territorial war will take place given the desertification of the seas: not the fighting in trenches or cities for a conflict far away and remote like in the colonies, but the hands-on fighting for the very land on which one is standing, or the sea on which one is floating, that is, a fight for the natural environment around one itself; the fight as both a local environmentalist and a local patriot.

The way to stop the environment-related wars is up to the environmentalists who are also pacifists. An endangered dolphin or bird may be introduced into the war-zone in the sea or land, and the warring parties informed about this, so that they will be compelled to stop the war, at least from that territory, for fear of harming or killing the endangered animals.