More than a century after the First World War, vast stretches of French soil remain contaminated, with some areas still too hazardous to access. Experts warn it could take 700 years to clear hidden munitions – the legacy of a conflict that wrought unprecedented destruction on the land

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1. The land is probably better off being inaccessible to humans. You can’t strip mine, drill, or clear out land with hidden munitions.

2. Is that 1 tractor plowing a field unexpectedly blowing up every year for 700 years, or 700 tractors blowing up this year?

   Politically it’s a big difference.

3. I remember in one of the later long conversions I had with my grandfather who was a ww2 vet was about the amount of damage still left behind and a book on these regions and the cleanup.

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