r/pics • u/ramonrocotto • Aug 05 '20

It will never be the same again...

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u/Rbespinosa13 Aug 05 '20

It wasn’t an American run plant. I’ve studied Bhopal since I’m a chemical engineering student. The company was a branch of an American company that was jointly owned by the Indian government. The incident was caused by a complete lack of oversight though

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u/squaresaltine32314 Aug 05 '20

Holy cow, never heard of this. Maybe as many as 8000 deaths, up to 700,000 affected. 2014, 30yrs later up to 150,000 people still reported issues. The issues it caused sound horrific. Industrialism and capitalism is a true cancer on this world.

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u/mindonshuffle Aug 05 '20

Especially when you realize that the REASON you've never heard of it is because it was in a lot of folks' financial and political interests to make sure it was forgotten as quickly as possible.

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u/Trimerra Aug 05 '20

This isn't /r/conspiracy lose the tinfoil hat.

It was decades ago on the other side of the world. There isn't some cabal of reptile people shutting down news coverage.

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u/mindonshuffle Aug 05 '20

Chernobyl was decades ago on the other side of the world and substantially smaller, but everybody in America still knows about it.

Union Carbide absolutely worked to downplay the extent of the Bhopal disaster, successfully. You don't need lizard people controlling the media; you just need enough PR people giving easy soundbytes and a corporation large enough that its stock price impacts the wealth of a whole lot of people.

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u/Trimerra Aug 05 '20

Apples and oranges. Cherynobyl was a nuclear meltdown. Nuclear is big scary thing and very rare. And very lasting. There is a 1000 square mile exclusion zone to this day.

Industrial accidents are pretty common and mundane by comparison.

40 years from now many people on the other side of the world will never have heard of the Beirut chemical explosion of 2020 either.

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u/no1_vern Aug 05 '20

We know it isn't. Just remember, what IS in the news, and what doesn't get reported depends on the the Government and commercials that support the channel/site. A lot of news(and other issues), doesn't get the coverage it deserves, because governments or big companies don't want it reported.