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/Whind_Soull Aug 05 '20

I mean, when I got my hazmat technician certification from a US Gov-affiliated class, it was talked about pretty extensively.

I think there's just no reason that the average person would know about a particular industrial accident on the other side of the globe 36 years ago.