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Hell, it’s still amazing there was so little fallout after Bhopal.
by CalRobert 5mo ago
Hell, it’s still amazing there was so little fallout after Bhopal.
- GJim 5mo agoFrankly, I'm not in the least surprised.
- leonidasrup 5mo agoBecause it happened in India, from perspective of US public: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- pfdietz 5mo agoUS government actions demonstrate the value placed on a life in another country can be much lower than the statistical value here in the US. We could save a life for a few thousand dollars with malaria nets (or so it's claimed); domestically a value of $12M per saved life is considered enough to justify some safety improvement.
- lanstin 5mo agoI worked with someone whose father drove his whole family out of the killing zone in Bhopal on a two wheeler. There might not have been a strong international movement to enforce safety first behavior on transnationals, but there was fall out.
- CalRobert 5mo agoSorry, the human impact was enormous. I meant in terms of holding the people who caused it to account.