Environment

Universidad del Valle de México
Global Culture
Teacher: Luis Alejandro Ibarra Díaz de León
“Man-made environmental disasters”
Karla Suarez Cadena

Introduction:
What role we play on thedestruction of our planet?, how we can damage our planet?, all our activities always damage our environment but we always want to have more oil, or more minerals, or be the richest or powerful country, andwhether directly or indirectly, intentional or unintentional, through negligence or even with due diligence, humans are especially skillful at creating disasters, a truth that is quite evidentthroughout history, and this is why I want to talk about the 10 environmental disasters that’s ended with a lot of communities, species of plants and animals.
The 5 worst environmental disasters which Iwill talk are:
1. Chernobyl nuclear disaster
2. Bhopal disaster
3. Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
4. (2)
Exxon Valdez oil spill
5. (1)
Agent orange



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(4)(5)

1. Chernobyl nuclear disaster: In 1986, one of the reactors of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded due to an experiment gone horribly wrong, reactor design defects and totaldisregard of safety measures. Considered to be the worst ever nuclear power accident, the explosion spewed out large amounts of radioactive particles that spread over parts of western former SovietUnion, Europe, and eastern North America. It caused major economic losses and raised serious environmental concerns that include the long-term effects of radiation exposure not only on people’s health butalso on the region’s agriculture, food consumption, aquatic systems, and flora and fauna. Birth deformities and respiratory-related deaths among the very young and the elderly have been estimated tobe in the tens of thousands and are believed to be attributable to this particular event.

2. Bhopal disaster: it was a dangerous chemical reaction occurred on December 3, 1984, when water...