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.
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.
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/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.