The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other middle eastern countries have impacted the environment in a major way. These modern wars have led to a destruction of the forest tips which are essential for forests to flourish and have overall lead to an increase in carbon emissions. It took China to spread a virus worldwide to finally get to a level of reasonable pollution, what will it take for these countries to finally stop fighting? The entire world is in fear of a virus, and has paused most warfare. It shouldn't take someone spreading a virus by eating the wrong things for us to realize that what we are doing isn't sustainable.