A war doesn't end when the guns fall silent. In the soil of Verdun, still contaminated more than a century after the battle, in the defoliant-sprayed forests of Vietnam, among the almost completely destroyed crops of Gaza, wounds remain that are passed down from generation to generation and that no peace treaty can heal. Stefania Divertito (War and Climate: The Ecocide That Destroys the Earth, Il Saggiatore), an investigative journalist who has covered the environment for years, delivers a reportage spanning eras and continents on the climatic toll of conflict, the accusation of "ecocide," clean-ups, and compensation. Because the only way to truly stop the effects of a war is to prevent it from starting. She interviews Saverio Simonelli.
A war doesn't end when the guns fall silent. In the soil of Verdun, still contaminated more than a century after the battle, in the defoliant-sprayed forests of Vietnam, among the almost completely destroyed crops of Gaza, wounds remain that are passed down from generation to generation and that no peace treaty can heal. Stefania Divertito (War and Climate: The Ecocide That Destroys the Earth, Il Saggiatore), an investigative journalist who has covered the environment for years, delivers a reportage spanning eras and continents on the climatic toll of conflict, the accusation of "ecocide," clean-ups, and compensation. Because the only way to truly stop the effects of a war is to prevent it from starting. She interviews Saverio Simonelli.