The night of December 2‚ 1984 could have been like any other night in Bhopal‚ but around 11:00 PM‚ one of the world’s largest industrial tragedies in history decimated the city and scarred its inhabitants for life. Imagine the feeling of waking up in the middle of the night‚ unable to breathe‚ eyes burning‚ and chaos erupting in streets. Death and disarray in every place you look and life as you know it ending in agonizing flooding of your lungs as they collapse in upon themselves. This terrible
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BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY – A SOCIAL‚ ECONOMIC‚ LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS “…the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) SUBMITTED BY: MALINI NAIR Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977710 DEPARTMENT OF RANGELAND ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 2 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1977710 BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY – A SOCIAL‚ ECONOMIC‚ LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
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There was still no clarity over the number of deaths in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand‚ with a state minister Sunday not ruling out an "estimate" of 10‚000-plus and Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna putting the number of missing people at 3‚000. Uttarakhand Health Minister Surinder Singh Negi did not discount assembly Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal’s claim Saturday of the toll in the tragedy having crossed 10‚000. "He (Kunjwal) has given an estimated figure. At the moment‚ it is an estimate. It can
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accidents in recorded history was the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India‚ in which more than 3‚000 people were killed after a highly toxic vapour‚ (methyl isocyanate)‚ was released at a Union Carbide pesticides factory. Efforts to prevent accidents range from improved safety systems to fundamental changes in chemical use and manufacture‚ referred to as primary prevention or inherent safety. In the United States‚ concern about chemical accidents after the Bhopal disaster led to the passage of the 1986 Emergency
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Both Union Carbide and the Indian government had the ethical obligation of non-maleficence; their obligation was to avoid harm to employees of the plant as well as citizens living in Bhopal. Additionally‚ Union Carbide and the Indian government had the ethical obligation to ensure that safety precautions were taken in daily operations of the plant as well as making corrections to known safety deficiencies. The Indian employees had the ethical obligation of fixing the problems that were pointed out
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industries‚ factories‚ vehicles etc. have contributed to the greenhouse effect‚ causing warmer weather that lasted long after the atmospheric shroud of dust and aerosols had cleared. Bhopal Gas Tragedy was one of the worst scientific disaster in history that led to the killing of around eight thousand people in Bhopal. It was the most devastating industrial disaster. It is a story of betrayal and an American dream that turned into an Indian nightmare with a terrifying legacy. Union carbide a great
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After the Bhopal gas disaster in 1984‚ the Indian legislation governing safety and environment underwent significant changes.Specifically‚the factories Act was amended to assign the responsibility of the “occupier”‚who is legally responsible for the safety of the workplace and workers‚to the highest level of management in an organization. For a company this meant that one of the directors on the board had to be designated as “occupier”.The Environmental legislation also underwent changes ‚with the
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Bhopal Union Carbide Ethical Dilemma Many ethical issues are raised by the situation that occurred in 1984 at the Union Carbide Corporation plant in Bhopal‚ India. The most important is the moral and ethical duty to preserve and protect human life. Union Carbide’s management‚ both in the United States and India failed to sufficiently protect its employees‚ the surrounding communities and environment from harm while operating its plant. It appears that the safety procedures at the plant were
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