Mongabay: The $91 billion wasted on nuclear weapons last year could transform ecosystem restoration (commentary)

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  • Nuclear weapons have caused much damage to the environment and are the only devices ever created that have the capacity to destroy all complex life forms on Earth. 
  • Yet every year, the nine nuclear armed-nations divert vast sums of taxpayers’ money into producing, maintaining and modernizing weapons of mass destruction, approximately $91.4 billion in 2023 alone.   
  • “One year of nuclear weapons spending could pay for wind power for more than 12 million homes to help

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