Chernobyl

On April 26, 1986, an exploration was conducted at Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine, part of the former Soviet Union. A local villager described it as: “Chernobyl. The war of all wars. There is no salvation for mankind anywhere. Not on earth, not in the water, not in the sky." This disaster not only had medical affects and environmental affects, but it also caused a big loss to some counties economy. “The Institute of Economics of the Belarussian National Academy of Sciences estimates that the country’s economy will suffer losses of $43.3 billion in the first 30 years after the accident. The total damage is projected to be $235 billion over this period. This is 32 times the national budget in 1985.” There are also some economic affects: the loss of agricultural land, the loss of mineral recourses, and the loss of labor. Not very long after the disaster, Belarus and Ukraine began to levy tax to deal with the disaster.
http://www.adiccp.org/aboutchernobyl/economicimpact.asp

From the Chernobyl disaster, we can clearly see that the environment has a lot to do with economic growth. Environmental affects are pluralized, like talked about above, it can cause health, economic problems, and long term affects. But the cause of the Chernobyl disaster was problem in designing. Actually, this is just an example of a disaster caused by the development of technology. There is always risk when something new appears.