What Bhopal Started
From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP
Sainath, P.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/06/15/what-bhopal-started/
http://www.spineworks.eu/en/what-bhopal-started.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/sainath06152010.html
Date Written: 2010-06-15
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX11933
Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. The ongoing BP spill in the Mexican Gulf -- with estimates ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 barrels per day -- tops off a quarter of a century where corporations could (and have) done anything in the pursuit of profit, at any human cost.
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All that Union Carbide did and got away with in Bhopal is shocking. But not, alas, surprising. In the quarter of a century since then, corporate power has only grown. Bhopals happen when societies privilege corporations over communities, and private profit over public interest. Curb corporate power, Indian or American, or it will rip you apart.
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