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Bhopal: after 40 years, ongoing effects of world’s worst industrial disaster show environmental racism is alive and well

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par M. Sudhir Selvaraj, Assistant Professor, Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford

In the early hours of December 3 1984, 27 tonnes of toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank at Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of the central Indian city of Bhopal. Amnesty International estimates that more than 22,000 people have died as a result of the leak and more than half a million people suffer permanent injury.

What would become the “world’s worst industrial disaster”…

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