Friday, March 27, 2009
Bhopal compared to Auschwitz
BBC News states today that allegedly "Union Carbide, and its current owner Dow Chemical Company, are continuing to withhold the results of studies into the effects of MIC on living tissue that were done at Carnegie-Mellon Institute in the late-70s and early 80s. There is no treatment protocol for the complex conditions that people exhibit and so the doctors treat the symptoms with large quantities of painkillers, antibiotics or steroids, all of which compound the problem with their side effects.
Groups representing the survivors and victims of the tragedy appealed to Unesco earlier this month for the Union Carbide plant to be preserved as an Industrial Heritage Site of international importance, so that the building would stand as a memorial to the disaster and educate future generations. Survivors say that they will "physically block" any attempts to dismantle the remaining structure. Other Unesco Industrial Heritage Sites include the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
IMO: About time the US paid off any surviving victims of Bhopal instead of squandering yet more US taxpayer's money on buying fancy homes for Pakistani residents. 82nd Airborne could resolve the Pakistan problem in a week, given adequate instructions. Instead many US soldiers will die unless the US pulls itself together.
BBC News states today that allegedly "Union Carbide, and its current owner Dow Chemical Company, are continuing to withhold the results of studies into the effects of MIC on living tissue that were done at Carnegie-Mellon Institute in the late-70s and early 80s. There is no treatment protocol for the complex conditions that people exhibit and so the doctors treat the symptoms with large quantities of painkillers, antibiotics or steroids, all of which compound the problem with their side effects.
Groups representing the survivors and victims of the tragedy appealed to Unesco earlier this month for the Union Carbide plant to be preserved as an Industrial Heritage Site of international importance, so that the building would stand as a memorial to the disaster and educate future generations. Survivors say that they will "physically block" any attempts to dismantle the remaining structure. Other Unesco Industrial Heritage Sites include the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
IMO: About time the US paid off any surviving victims of Bhopal instead of squandering yet more US taxpayer's money on buying fancy homes for Pakistani residents. 82nd Airborne could resolve the Pakistan problem in a week, given adequate instructions. Instead many US soldiers will die unless the US pulls itself together.
# posted by uv : 4:39 AM
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