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So basically a chemical factory got in financial trouble, causing severe mismanagement, which caused at least 5000 deaths and much more people with health probl
by hyperman1 8y ago
So basically a chemical factory got in financial trouble, causing severe mismanagement, which caused at least 5000 deaths and much more people with health problems
What worries me: this seems like the kind of factory you find on every medium size city's industrial zone. Quite a lot of them have really nasty chemicals. If you're not working there, you have no idea about how good or bad safety is inside. With governemental checks diminishing all over the world, how many more bhopals are on the edge of happening?
- elipsey 8y agoI think this story is a stark reminder of the existence of environmental externalities. Just curious, what country are you in? In the US we have state agencies to address this, such as OSHA for worker safety, DEC and EPA (for now?) for environmental standards, research, and monitoring, federal super-fund to insure/internalize cost of abandoned site clean up, etc. Not perfect, but better then what's described in TFA.