Chernobyl Disaster according to Deep Ecologist

In Ukraine 1986, a nuclear power plant had an incident in which a reactor was operated by a vaguely trained person or adequate maintenance. As a result there was a steam explosion and fire, releasing 5% of the radioactive reactor core. Looking at graph below we can see how with this 5% there was a chain reaction creating a huge explosion impossible to control inside the power plant (world-nuclear.org). There was nothing else to be done, many workers died that moment but deaths continued to happen in the following weeks and even years due to the radioactive components in the air left from the explosion. Even 20 years after the explosion, there are many people contacting thyroid cancer and many other health problems.

In figure #1 is being shown the way in which human beings can be affected by radiation trough the consumption of aliments.  At fist all the gases and radiation go up in the air and they get mix with the clouds but at the same time humans can inhale these toxins and be affected directly. Once all this toxins are in clouds trough precipitation water and pants and crops are affected. Then this contamination affects animals like fishes and cows that are consumed by humans. Also by water resources that humans also needs they get affected. All this radiation and contamination has causes thyroid cancer in kids, teenagers and adults.

The Chernobyl accident has causes many mortal issues and deaths among the people that live or were near the accident. Since the accident in 1986 many humans being had being affected with several sicknesses like cancer, mutations, and health issues.  Being a big impact in society this accident has caused a big amount of deaths. This situation somehow has created awareness among people but in countries like Argentina and Iran their have keep going with this kind of projects causing more vulnerable situations in the cities. They keep working with this kind of projects and people do not learn that nuclear energy is not effective and recently an impact in Japan the nuclear factory got some problems and started to release radiation affecting people and the environment, but Chernobyl being a more precise example we can see that is has caused 93,000 deaths thanks to cancer and more of 200,000 have being affected with any kind of illness. The biggest impact was that this sadly accident affects more than 4,000 kids and teenagers. But also pregnant women were affected their child born with mutations and some with brain damage, and also their health was affected. The most affected of this were children like the Doctor Igor Vasilevich Komissarenko said: “Children were affected most because they were growing.” He has being a surgeon that has being be dealing with thyroid cancer mostly form Chernobyl accident. Also causing genetic mutations.   Among people they have get to understand that nuclear energy can bring health issues but projects do not stop from part of governmental decisions but we can say that people are aware if the situation and what causes it may have. Nuclear energy should not be a source of energy because it realizes radiation and rather than only affecting the people who work in that area it affects people on the surroundings. We need to create more awareness that nuclear energy is not a good source because it has a long term impact and also radiation affects humans in various ways and is even worse there is an accident.

The death of all these people was absolutely unnecessary; the land they have damaged is irreplaceable. Land pays the people who damage it as they have treated the land, if they destroyed the planet, the planet will destroy them as we'll. It is only fair that people reconsider the situation and take this a sign that they must respect the planet and protect it.

Nuclear energy preleases great amount of unnecessary radioactive left overs into the atmosphere, people must stop this process because there is not a perfect way of producing additional energy, the planet has given us everything, why do humans have this ambition to have more energy?

The Chernobyl disaster released “100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima” (new.bbc.co.uk). The disaster affected Chernobyl, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Many years after the accident radioactive effects still remain as well as contamination with cesium and strontium, which remain in the soil for many years (new.bbc.co.uk)

What is the effect of a disaster like Chernobyl to the environment? Humans are not conscious of the relationship we play in our world. We are not the rulers or the owners of our planet; we live in a mutual relationship with the environment. Nature’s purpose is not to serve humans, since humans are just another specie among others, we are not superior in any way (judibari.org) Species can live, grow and flourish as they want since they are not dependent to humans. We must understand the level of importance biodiversity has on our life and our survival. Chernobyl disaster not only affected humans but changes in climate, wildlife and plant life were disrupted too.(alma.edu). We must understand that whatever happens to the environment will affect us too because we are all connected and we live on a planet as a whole.

Chernobyl nuclear basement accident has caused a large impact trough the years lasting the effects until the present days. Even though the accident occurred more than 25 years ago, there are notable effects nowadays. For example looking at people, little boys that are born are affected with mutations causing also death problems.  The world doesn't need additional energy, the energy we need is already provided by Mother Nature. The additional production of energy cause a disequilibrium in the planet, causing exploitation of resources, only negative effects on every single living organism. Although the direct effects are all negative, there is also a point to consider in the long run; after the incident people will look at the sacrifice of all those people's lives, and understand that we are causing disequilibrium, we are damaging the world unnecessarily. People's death is the only way to make people understand that we do not own the planet; the planet owns us and we must respect it. The damage that we create is irreplaceable, we will all die before human race realizes that the damage is not justified, that we have enough resources. Lets hope that the sacrifice of all these people, all that sorrow of the people in Chernobyl, is worth it and they realize that what Mother Nature gives us is more than enough for human race to survive.

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