Reviewing National Security from the view of Military-related Envirommental Problems at Peace Time

Abstract

This paper’s purposes are i) to arrange military-related environmental problems (M REPs), ii) to demonstrate an identity of M REPs, iii) to reveal the importance that we consider about military national security from a view of environmental preservation.

MREPs in peacetime have below particularities in comparison with M REPs in wartime; i) dairy severe damages are caused, ii) victims are people around military bases. Victims of M REPs in peacetime are people that should be secured by military national security policy. This thing is to be strong criticism against military national security policy that demands much expense and swells itself unlimitedly. Considering the above, we realize that it is very important how we tackle M REPs in peacetime to resolve M REPs through disarmament. In this paper I take up Yokota Air Base noise pollution lawsuit as a concrete effort.

The most important point that is demonstrated through Yokota Air Base noise pollution lawsuit is that military activities that invade human rights and environment around military bases don’t have permitted.Today as a result of movements even military activities must have been restricted from a view of human rights and environmental preservation. It has been impossible to push through the conventional security concept that military activities must precede the all other things.

Many natural disasters, a collapse of ecosystem and an exhaustion of natural resources threaten human security. However military national security doesn’t deal with these problems. On the contrary by MREPs that include aviation noise pollution military activities destruct environment drastically. Insofar as we consider the present condition like these, conventional military national security that arose in the Cold War era must be restructured from a view of environmental preservation today. Environmental human security must be replaced with conventional security.