# From Battlefields to Bytes: The Environmental Scars of Modernity

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Ian Mudway
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Earth and environment, History
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/battlefields-bytes)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

War's environmental legacies disproportionately burden the civilian populations left behind. While research focuses on combatant exposures, civilians face chronic contamination from heavy metals, chemical residues, unexploded ordnance, and asbestos, often exacerbated by disrupted infrastructure and psychological trauma. Framed through the exposome, this lecture highlights the need for greater research and policy focus on these long-term, low-level exposures and their impact on civilian health, advocating for remediation, care, and environmental justice.

## Lectures

1. [War's Toxic Legacy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-battlefields-bytes/a1d0801705ec) (Audio)
2. [The Price of Pixels: Unmasking the Environmental Impact of Our Digital Lives](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-battlefields-bytes/e85ae9a31a7b) (Audio)
3. [The Pill and the Planet: Can We Have Both a Healthy Aging Population and a Sustainable Future?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-battlefields-bytes/c21a108906d7) (Audio)