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“<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong> and the Environment:<br />
The Ecological Implications of Modern <strong>Air</strong> Warfare”<br />
The Conference of:<br />
The <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>Studies</strong> Division,<br />
King’s College London<br />
and<br />
The Royal <strong>Air</strong> Force<br />
Centre for <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>Studies</strong><br />
K ING’S<br />
College<br />
LONDON<br />
Centre for <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>Studies</strong><br />
Concordia res parvae crescent<br />
“Work together to accomplish more”<br />
Royal <strong>Air</strong> Force College Cranwell<br />
United Kingdom<br />
26 and 27 August 2009<br />
Environmental responsibility already lies at the forefront of our western world<br />
perspective and is constantly growing in importance. Ecological activism, which<br />
used to be a fringe movement, has now become mainstream. In 2007 Al Gore and<br />
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize (and an<br />
Oscar!) for their efforts to raise environmental awareness. Greenpeace, which uses<br />
“non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems,” alone<br />
has no fewer than 220,000 members in the UK and 2.8 million worldwide. Ecologists,<br />
environmentalists, activists, lobbyists and of course strategists are already turning<br />
their attention to ecological aspects of modern warfare, including land mines, cluster<br />
ordnance, erosion and soil damage, air pollution, deforestation, nuclear testing and<br />
proliferation, oil spillage and fires, DU contamination, the disposal of ordnance, and<br />
so forth. It seems likely that such concerns will also become increasingly mainstream.
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