Essays on Bhopal

Introduction

The Bhopal disaster is considered to be the deadliest event in the corporate history of the world. Due to the leakage of lethal gases out of the factory, there were around 4000 deaths within 72 hours, while the number surged to around 15,000 within few weeks. It has been estimated by that 200,000 people became permanently disabled due to this incident. This incident is a pure case of intense corporate negligence. This case caused a major foreign investment dispute between government of India and Union Carbide Corporation. This dispute arose from the notion that some companies have ...

Environmental laws and regulations are framed to protect the air, land and water environment as well as human health from adverse impacts of industrial or commercial activities. All capital ventures are aimed towards increased production and associated profits, while the surrounding environment is taken for granted. Results of such environmental devaluations are great disasters that lead to severe capital and human loss. Four different disasters that resulted from violation of major environmental laws or led to the development of new regulations are discussed below in detail.

Love Canal

Hooker Chemical Company acquired an aborted canal project area near Niagara Falls called ...

Disaster and emergency management protocols are a vital need, not only for public governmental entities, but also for private companies as well. Organizations that lack emergency management plans, or whose plans fall short of the “best practices” that have been identified for emergency management, may thrive in the short term, but are headed for a date with the major news media. Sometimes both the public entities and private companies fail to ensure proper disaster and emergency management protocols, leading to unnecessary tragedy, in the form of death and damage to property. One example of this is the Bhopal disaster that ...

Natural and manmade disasters all have their own scary associations; for example, people who live in the south Asian nation of Bangladesh face the prospect of cyclonic storms each year that could potentially kill tens of thousands, if they don’t end up just destroying much of the year’s crops. Earthquakes such as the one that led to the 1906 fire in San Francisco are an example of a multi-phase disaster, in which one terrible event leads to another, no matter what interventions people attempt. Nuclear disasters are another example of this sort of multi-phase mayhem, as the environmental ...