HISTORICAL EVENTS

Question 1

Chernobyl Incident

Answer 1

April 26th 1986
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Chernobyl 4 nuclear core exploded
Disaster happened after a flawed design reactor operated by inadequate staff exploded.
50 people died
350000 people were immediately evacuated
The radioactive cloud covered 28000 km 2
The radius of the explosion was 30km long and more than half of it covered Belarus.
20000 years have to go by in order for people to move back to Chernobyl
Health effects: Leukemia, Cataracts, Thyroid cancer, Cardiovascular disease and overall radiation sickness.
The radiation also contaminated thousands of forest and corp/grazing land km2 which had to be cut (the forest trees) in order to get rid of the contamination that trees held in.
Animals were born deformed.
Vienna Convention of Civil liability for Nuclear Damage
People were completely against nuclear energy
All the chernobyl power plants ended up shutting down.
April 26th 1986
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Chernobyl 4 nuclear core exploded
Disaster happened after a flawed design reactor operated by inadequate staff exploded.
50 people died
350000 people were immediately evacuated
The radioactive cloud covered 28000 km 2
The radius of the explosion was 30km long and more than half of it covered Belarus.
20000 years have to go by in order for people to move back to Chernobyl
Health effects: Leukemia, Cataracts, Thyroid cancer, Cardiovascular disease and overall radiation sickness.
The radiation also contaminated thousands of forest and corp/grazing land km2 which had to be cut (the forest trees) in order to get rid of the contamination that trees held in.
Animals were born deformed.
Vienna Convention of Civil liability for Nuclear Damage
People were completely against nuclear energy
All the chernobyl power plants ended up shutting down.

Question 2

What is Fridays for future?

Answer 2

Fridays for the future is an environmental movement led and organized by young individuals. The movement started after young activist Greta Thunberg sat in front of the Swedish parliament along with other young activists for three consecutive weeks to protest the lack of action against the climate crisis. Greta started sharing her protests online and her content went viral, motivating young people around the world to protest in their cities to fight for climate change. Greta was able to reach +14 000 000 people, 7 500 cities in all the continents in the world.

Impacts of the movement:
Change of policies in some countries
Engagement of young people in the climate crisis + Raised awareness and gave knowledge to people.
Schools around the world started educating young people about the climate crisis and how to fight against it.
Media coverage → Public awareness
Change in business practices → Environmentally friendly practices