Disaster Spills Across Bhopal

Part I of Essay
Imagine a world without chemicals. Even though they sound so horrible, we use them in all most everything. Like the saying goes, “can’t live with them, can’t live without them,” chemicals are involved in our everyday lives, yet they are so forgien to the human body. When ....

Part II of Essay
.... to humans (Leonard, 3). Around 11:00 p.m., a worker noted that heat and pressure were building in a tank and called for assistance, but by then it was too late. At 12:56 a.m., the morning of December 3rd, a faulty valve ruptured, allowing the deadly gas to escape into the atmosphere and cause a huge vapor puff to fall onto silent, sleeping Bhopal (Cush, 30). Before the release of 40 tons of MIC, Bhopal was a prospering city. The population was growing to about 700,000 people. In India large corporations were encouraged to build there ....