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Re: Bhopal disaster

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The settlement of legal cases here is an example of great injustice of our times that needs to be corrected.

Ongoing contamination is very serious issue. West needs to put pressure and appropriate help for fixing this. Sadly developed countries spend lot on wars but care very less on real serious issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster#Ongoing_contam...

Re: Bhopal disaster

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The executives who decided on the disastrous cost-cutting measures at the Bhopal plant, in the face of numerous warnings about the mortal danger they posed, should have been sent to prison.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if you exclude gunpowder production: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanggongchang_Explosion

Thanks for link. Chemicals and nukes are still more dangerous than gunpowder. They cause mutation affecting upcoming generations too. People die slowly without even realizing causes.

Right in theory except if you look at it holistically nuclear energy does way less harm than competing energy sources. In terms of deaths per terawatt-hour of electricity, nuclear weighs in well below solar, wind and hydro. Even if you include Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and Fukushima. [1] It also generates basically negligible quantities of waste which can be used in different processes or safely stored underground. The total amount of waste produced so far is ~one football field. From the entire history of nuclear energy in America.

Humans are constantly exposed to low levels of background radiation, and surprisingly enough, we show very few negative effects from low levels of exposure even beyond that.

People are much more scared of radiation than they should be.

[1] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

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World's worst industrial disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disaster... Union carbide is now owned by Dow Chemicals. Dow chemicals itself notorious for being one of the most toxic producing company on planet. Even though there is great awareness in millenials about climate change, people has to understand earth as whole organism. To fix nature we must have to eliminate such chemical companie…

To fix nature we must have to eliminate such chemical companies along with nukes. Once you eliminate the chemical companies running the Haber-Bosch process, you can also dispose of the nukes by using them to put starving billions out of misery.

Getting downvoted because you made sense.

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World's worst industrial disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disaster... Union carbide is now owned by Dow Chemicals. Dow chemicals itself notorious for being one of the most toxic producing company on planet. Even though there is great awareness in millenials about climate change, people has to understand earth as whole organism. To fix nature we must have to eliminate such chemical companie…

Companies like this don't operate for fun. What are they producing that is so toxic, can it be replaced or disused completely, and/or are they behaving significantly worse than other companies fulfilling this demand would be?

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Dow later purchased Union Carbide Corporation. Interestingly, they have a page about the disaster. https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/about/legal/issues/bhopal.ht...

"The former Bhopal plant was owned and operated by Union Carbide India, Ltd. (UCIL), an Indian company, with shared stock ownership by Union Carbide Corporation, the Indian government, and private investors. "

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for link. Chemicals and nukes are still more dangerous than gunpowder. They cause mutation affecting upcoming generations too. People die slowly without even realizing causes.

Right in theory except if you look at it holistically nuclear energy does way less harm than competing energy sources. In terms of deaths per terawatt-hour of electricity, nuclear weighs in well below solar, wind and hydro. Even if you include Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and Fukushima. [1] It also generates basically negligible quantities of waste which can be used in different processes or safely stored undergro…

We need to invest more in research & safe solutions. Building tools, which by accident can eliminate large piece of humanity and damage nature severly, is not an ideal solution.

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World's worst industrial disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disaster... Union carbide is now owned by Dow Chemicals. Dow chemicals itself notorious for being one of the most toxic producing company on planet. Even though there is great awareness in millenials about climate change, people has to understand earth as whole organism. To fix nature we must have to eliminate such chemical companie…

Dow did not own it during the disaster and was not responsible for it. Your post is off topic.
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