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vogon_laureate
We will need innovators, engineers, drones, robotics, armoured tractors, tech, AI, capital, political will and international coordination to clean it all up. We should do the same for the two dozen countries where landmines and unexploded munitions destroy lives still, in some cases, decades after they were laid.[1]

  [1]: https://www.halotrust.org/
newprint
France is still littered with WW1 ammunition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIBE64CAgs Listen to numbers that one of EOD guys gives about clean-up WW1 ammunition.
vogon_laureate
I live in the South coast of England. Every few months there's a story about some WWII bomb or sea mine that's been found that needs to be safely removed.
newprint
Same situation all over the Germany.
vogon_laureate
When you learn about the sheer numbers involved worldwide. The International Red Cross Committee reckons there are 30 million mines in 18 countries. Angola alone has 9 million![1]

  [1]: https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/57jmcy.htm
taeric
Could state this as close to a quarter of the country? Just insane. :(
32gbsd
That alot of mines. I guess they mean business.