Bhopal, India...worst chemical disaster in history....20th anniversary

[bobbieinok]

Union Carbide.......eventually 15,000 (?) deaths

added: heard on radio news 11pm on Malloy

[NYC]

1. I remember when that happened.

Wasn't much condemnation of Union Carbide. I know someone who took a job there despite the Bhopal incident.

[DrWeird]

2. Brings up an interesting philosophical debate.

Which is worse? 20,000 people instantly dying in a huge release of hydrogen cyanide?

Or three people dying every day across the world for twenty years because of an everyday industrial pollutant.?

[Lucky Luciano]

3. I remember that....

I remember 3-4000 died within a day....far more were permanently blinded....and the long term effects killed 15-20,000...terrible....terrible...terrible...

[CHIMO]

4. Justice for Bhopal

On the night of December 2, 1984, over 40 tons of lethal methyl isocyante (MIC) gas spilled out from Union Carbide's pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. With safety systems either malfunctioning or turned off, an area of 40 square kilometers, with a resident population of over half a million, was soon covered with a dense cloud of MIC gas. People woke in their homes to fits of coughing, their lungs filling with fluid. In the span of the first three days after the accident, over 8,000 people died in Bhopal, mainly from cardiac and respiratory arrest.


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