Letters to the Editor: If humanity is to survive, we can no longer afford destructive wars

Experts prepare to enter an incident area to assess remaining hazards in East Palestine, Ohio.

Who doesn’t share Adi Roche’s concerns about another Chernobyl — ‘ Ukraine war sees Chernobyl nuclear risk back on centre stage’ (Irish Examiner, February 24)?

Although the Ohio train wreck bears comparison; the Fukoshima disasater, obviously, and massive oil field impacts, such as in Iraq where doctors say, cancer is as common as flu. Accumulating carcinogenic ‘forever chemicals’ leaching from plastics and coatings, and other chemicals are routinely detected in human and animal bodies. Seventy per cent of much wild life became extinct in the past 50 years. Greenhouse gas emissions from military activity often exceed entire national amounts, and contribute to the heating up of the planet; a critical consideration for anyone taking climate change seriously.