We're seeing increasingly heavy shelling of residential areas in #Ukarine. Alongside the massive civilian costs of the use of explosive force in cities, we also need to consider how this indiscriminate practice impacts the environment, and as a result, human health. 🧵🔽 1/x 
2/x When buildings are hit, building materials are pulverised, generating large volumes of dust. PBM dusts are typically a heterogeneous mixture of materials, such as cement, metals, PCBs, silica, asbestos and other synthetic fibres. ceobs.org/conflict-rubbl…
3/x In spite of this being an issue in every conflict where heavy weapons are used in populated areas, research on these dusts and exposures is largely absent, as with most chronic health exposures linked to conflict.
4/x Urban warfare creates vast quantities of debris. This is often contaminated with UXO but also with whatever was in the buildings, could be houses, could be commercial, could be light industrial. How you deal with it matters for the environment. unep.org/news-and-stori…
5/x This is why, together with partners, we have been advocating for the current political process on #EWIPA to address the environment. #Ukraine is a further reminder of why indiscriminate shelling of towns and cities is so abhorrent ceobs.org/we-must-not-ig…
7x horrifying levels of destruction now being seen in residential areas in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1499451547058642945
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