Comments on: Bhopal disaster: 25 years later http://writeside.net/social-issues/bhopal-disaster-25-years-later Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Katie http://writeside.net/social-issues/bhopal-disaster-25-years-later/comment-page-1#comment-13943 Katie Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:56:37 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=298#comment-13943 What would the people living where everything is so contaminated like to be done for themselves and their families? There needs to be massive aid there but how likely is it that they will be able to deal with contaminated ground water on that scale. There has basically been nothing done whatsoever, not for an accident of that magnitude. Well, I ask but that's what I'm looking up now. I should probably wait to comment but it makes me so mad. Dow, by buying UCC, is most definitely responsible for what the company did before. Effing Dow! What would the people living where everything is so contaminated like to be done for themselves and their families? There needs to be massive aid there but how likely is it that they will be able to deal with contaminated ground water on that scale. There has basically been nothing done whatsoever, not for an accident of that magnitude.

Well, I ask but that’s what I’m looking up now. I should probably wait to comment but it makes me so mad.

Dow, by buying UCC, is most definitely responsible for what the company did before. Effing Dow!

]]> By: Payal http://writeside.net/social-issues/bhopal-disaster-25-years-later/comment-page-1#comment-13939 Payal Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:12:32 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=298#comment-13939 Well, they were here in the first place because they thought they could get away with cutting corners. So, you could say, there was some pretty dastardly thinking that preceded the event! And yeah, it is upsetting how both governments and companies refuse to be accountable. UCC just ran off, got sold to Dow, and now Dow says, "Hey, it wasn't us!" And the government doesn't seem to care. Who's caught in the middle -- some of the most severely marginalized sections of society, whose children are still being born with defects because of what happened a quarter of a century later, and who have no choice but to drink contaminated water... Well, they were here in the first place because they thought they could get away with cutting corners. So, you could say, there was some pretty dastardly thinking that preceded the event!

And yeah, it is upsetting how both governments and companies refuse to be accountable. UCC just ran off, got sold to Dow, and now Dow says, “Hey, it wasn’t us!” And the government doesn’t seem to care. Who’s caught in the middle — some of the most severely marginalized sections of society, whose children are still being born with defects because of what happened a quarter of a century later, and who have no choice but to drink contaminated water…

]]> By: Marie http://writeside.net/social-issues/bhopal-disaster-25-years-later/comment-page-1#comment-13938 Marie Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:54:27 +0000 http://writeside.net/blog/?p=298#comment-13938 It always upsets me when companies (and governments) think they can get away with this sort of thing. Actually, I guess there is no "thinking" involved because they can get away with it thanks to the almighty dollar. UGH It always upsets me when companies (and governments) think they can get away with this sort of thing. Actually, I guess there is no “thinking” involved because they can get away with it thanks to the almighty dollar. UGH

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