‘Ecocide’ is the genocide of the environment. Environmentalists say that it is the absence of respect for the environment, through things such as genetic manipulation and cloning, the use of nuclear experiments and the associated radioactive waste. Which are aspects associated with nuclear power plants, thus the article is possibly saying that the nuclear power plants lack respect for the environment, thus the exploitation and disruption of the natural environment.

Genetic research has market another important moment in the environmental movement. Modern medicine, the development of bacteriological weapons, experimental medicine, etc are all areas where we can compare the effects of the environment on the quality of individual health. Health is linked to the quality of the environment; therefore medicine has helped make the state of the environment an important concern. Health is now seen as being influenced by many relationships and by the environment. One needs to balance the forces that influence ones health. In relation to the nuclear power plants as an aspect that affects human’s health, people have learned that low-level radiation exposure on the workers of the nuclear industry has affected their health. “It seems evident that public health would be better served in the long term by these alternatives than by increasing the number of nuclear power plants in the United States and the rest of the world.” [1] This statement is referring to using alternative sources of “clean” sources of power rather than nuclear power.

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[1] Richard W. Clapp. (1 November 2005). Guest Editorial: Nuclear Power and Public Health. Available: http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.113-a720. Last accessed 22 April 2011.