What kind of material damage did WWI do to the world, broadly speaking?

comfy@lemmy.ml to Ask Historians@lemmygrad.ml · 2 days ago

It is fine to answer about just one region.

I know about some of the immense societal and cultural impact of the first World War, but beyond the millions of human deaths, I don’t know much about:

loss of resources
ecological devastation
environmental contamination
loss of infrastructure

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