Question

describe the effect of world wars on forest with reference to the scorched earthly policy

Answer 1

The world wars had a major impact on forests and other environmental factors such as water contamination and soil erosion etc. Scorched earth policy was a strategy of militaries in which all the valuable things that an enemy can use during the war or after it were burned or detroyed  while advancing or withdrawing. This included burning of forests, crops or livestock etc. Because of this, the enemy couldn't fight for longer periods. This was very helpful in winning the wars. It affected forests in disastrous ways.Some of the impacts are:-

1.  During the first and second world war,indian forest department cut trees for the use of Britishers. This led to cut of millions of trees .

2. In Java,  the Dutch followed the  same scorched earth policy of destroying saw mills, burning logs of teak so that the Japanese forces  could not benefit from it.

3. Soviet Russian dictator  Stalin also used this policy against Ukraine .In 1993, Millions of Ukrainians died because of actions of destroying all the valuables like timber, food etc.  Millions of hectares of land became barren .
4. Japanese also used forest for war purposes in Java. This also led to deforestation.

so World wars had put a lot of pressure on our eco-system.






 

Answer 2

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