Bhopal gas tragedy

Thirty years ago, on the night of December 2, 1984, an accident at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, released at least 30 tons of a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate, as well as a number of other poisonous gases. The pesticide plant was surrounded by shantytowns, leading to more than 600,000 people being exposed to the deadly gas cloud that night. The gases stayed low to the ground, causing victims throats and eyes to burn, inducing nausea, and many deaths. Estimates of the death toll vary from as few as 3,800 to as many as 16,000, but government figures now refer to an estimate of 15,000 killed over the years. Toxic material remains, and 30 years later, many of those who were exposed to the gas have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children. For decades, survivors have been fighting to have the site cleaned up, but they say the efforts were slowed when Michigan-based Dow Chemical took over Union Carbide in 2001. Human-rights groups say that thousands of tons of hazardous waste remain buried underground, and the government has conceded the area is contaminated. There has, however, been no long-term epidemiological research that conclusively proves that birth defects are directly related to the drinking of the contaminated water. Trees frame a rusting building at the abandoned former Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, on November 11, 2014. On the night of December 2, 1984, the factory, owned by the U.S. multinational Uni...

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The Bhopal Gas tragedy occurred between December 2nd and 3rd 1984, at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. One of the world’s worst industrial disasters, it involved a toxic methyl isocyanate gas leak which killed more than 15,000 people and injured some 200,000. What Caused The Disaster? Like many big human-related disasters, the incident occurred due to a combination of mechanical errors, ignorance, and human oversight. Various violations of standard procedures, as well as staffing cut back not only seem to have caused the initial issue, but also prevented the leak from being caught and dealt with in a timely manner. The initial leak: The initial leak, which sparked the series of events that followed, occurred shortly after an under trained member of staff was asked to rinse a pipe that was not properly sealed. This process itself is prohibited according to the rules of the plant, and it is believed that it was water from this rinsing which caused the first contamination-based reaction. Part of the Union Carbide plant that caused the biggest industrial disaster in 1984 in Bhopal. When water is in a closed space with methyl isocyanate, it can react in an explosive manner. This reaction then caused the methyl isocyanate gas to start leaking out of the storage tank. The leak did register, but it was not addressed immediately, or urgently, as the supervisor at the time assumed the leak was merely a water leak. This was said to be because instrume...

Friday marks 37 years of the horror that had occurred in the Madhya Pradesh capital in 1984 when thousands of people were killed due to the tragic gas leak from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL). Members of Sambhavana Trust Clinic, which provides medical assistance to gas affected people, light candles to pay tribute to the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy on its 37th anniversary, in front of an abandoned Union Carbide plant, in Bhopal.(PTI) The disaster took place on the intervening night of December 2-3 and to date, it is considered among the world's worst industrial disasters. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other highly toxic substances like carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, etc made their way into and around the small towns located near the plant. As per a state government affidavit filed in the court in the year 2006, the tragedy had killed 3,787 people and affected more than 5.58 lakh in the state capital after toxic gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory which was closed after the tragedy. However, the organisations fighting for the victims claim the tragedy has killed at least 25,000 people. 37 years on, victims still await adequate compensation It has been 37 years since the disaster and the survivors and the kin of the deceased are still waiting to be compensated fairly by the government. According to a news report by PTI, each victim of the tragedy has so far received less than one-fifth of the allo...

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Hostname: page-component-594f858ff7-pr6g6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2023-06-15T15:03:19.428Z Has data issue: false Feature Flags: hasContentIssue false In cases in which many causes together bring about an effect, it is common to select some as particularly important. Philosophers since Mill have been pessimistic about analyzing this reasoning because of its variability and the multifarious causal and pragmatic details of how it works. I argue Mill was right to think these details matter but wrong that they preclude philosophical analysis of causal selection. I show that analyzing the pragmatic details of scientific debates about the important causes of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy can illuminate causal reasoning about disasters and shed new light on causality and causal selection. Copyright 2021 by the Philosophy of Science Association. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits non-commercial reuse of the work with attribution. For commercial use, contact [email protected]. 1. Introduction Why are some causes judged to be more important than others? Do some causes have features that make them more important? Or are these judgments unfounded? In cases in which many causes together bring about an effect, it is common to select some as particularly important and background the others. Causal selection is used regularly in scientific and everyday reasoning. Yet, phil...