India: Court rejects extra redress for Bhopal gas victims

https://www.dw.com/en/india-court-rejects-extra-redress-for-bhopal-gas-victims/a-64976751?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#India #DowChemical #Bhopalgasdisaster #UnionCarbide #SupremeCourt

The good news is that after 40 years of despair inducing regulatory nihilism and "vote with your wallet" talk, we're *finally* paying attention to systemic problems, with a new generation of trustbusting radicals working around the world to end corporate impunity.

Dow is a repeat offender. A repeat, repeat offender. Chrissakes, they're the linear descendants of #UnionCarbide, the company that poisoned #Bhopal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

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Has anyone seen the film about Dr #VandanaShiva yet?

She was a #nuclearPhysicist turned #activist, originally tasked with investigating #UnionCarbide's #BhopalDistaster in the 1980s before forming a #SeedFreedom movement against #BigAg and #Monsanto that exploded globally (and proved itself in many ways).

An interview she gave on #AfshinRattansi's show on RT's, #GoingUnderground:

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/569418-vandana-shiva-ecology-environment/

Thoughts?

#theSeedsOfVandanaShiva #dowChemical #duPont #ecology #environment

If you remember one of the world's most horrifying
#industrial #accidents, when lethal methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the #UnionCarbide plant that killed tens of thousands of people in #Bhopal - you might want to find out how Rajkumar Keswani, a local journalist, tried to warn and pre-empt, years earlier, to no avail - recommended listen
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001bs1r

Gestern war der 38. Jahrestag der #Chemiekatastrophe von #Bhopal. Wer die Details nicht (mehr) kennt, dem sei dieser Spiegel-Artikel aus 2009 empfohlen:

https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/chemiekatastrophe-von-bhopal-a-948629.html

Auch wenn das weit weg war und lange zurückliegt: Die Verhaltensweisen im Umgang mit den Opfern haben sich seitdem regelmäßig wiederholt. Allein deshalb sollte man das lesen und im Hinterkopf behalten.

#UnionCarbide #DowChemical