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Umm, Bhopal? Seriously I can't believe it's not even mentioned.

• apathy 10y ago
  Union Carbide is still around (as a subsidiary of Dow). It was a horrible, horrible thing they did, but man's inhumanity to man is on grand display when you realize that the stock market did not punish them, and legally, both of the governments that could have done so barely enforced their penalty. It is absolutely horrifying as a human being, but if you put yourself in the shoes of a sociopathic CEO, it turned out OK for Union Carbide. Not so much for Bhopal. Rereading the details of the incident, it is striking how negligence at every level compounded the problem. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster) If not for a long string of terrible decisions, nobody would have been hurt, killed, or poisoned. Even worse than I remembered. See also "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia"(http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/ http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-be...). There are an appalling number of these incidents. It's quite depressing if you think about it.
• ars 10y ago
  > Seriously I can't believe it's not even mentioned. Wasn't that an accident rather than a deliberate mistake? I know their behavior in aftermath was bad, but the actual incident was an accident, so I don't think it's part of this list.
  • Ar-Curunir 10y ago
    Accidents can be caused by mistakes, no?
    • ars 10y ago
      I said deliberate mistake. As in they said "This is the best way", later it turns out to have been a mistake. Negligence or neglect are not the same thing (they are bad, but they are not educational, so they are not part of this list).
      • Ar-Curunir 10y ago
        Either way, their reaction afterwards was pretty bad.