The Bhopal syndrome : pesticides, environment, and health /
In the early hours of December 3, 1984, the city of Bhopal, India, was converted into a gas chamber, creating a holocaust unprecedented in the annals of man-made industrial disasters. Bhopal was expensive in human lives, in environmental damage, and in economic and social costs. It was unnecessary a...
| Основен автор: | Weir, David, 1947 Apr. 14- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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San Francisco :
Sierra Club Books,
c1987.
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Съдържание:
- Foreword / Anwar Fazal
- Introduction: Our right to know
- Pt. 1, The Tragedy:
- Running toward Bhopal
- The global pesticide industry
- A disaster waiting to happen
- A night of terror
- The aftermath;
- Pt. 2, The syndrome:
- Nobody knows
- Slow-motion Bhopal
- Run into the wind
- The neighbors strike back
- From Nike to Mexico
- Worrying at Kurosaki
- It can happen in America;
- Pt. 3, The solution:
- Power and money
- Our obligation to history
- Conclusion: Path toward a future
- Afterword: A walk through Bhopal / Claude Ayers
- Appendix A: Top 20 world agrochemical producers
- Appendix B: Major pesticide intermediates
- Appendix C: Major industrial accidents
- Appendix D: U.S. chemical accidents
- Appendix E: Sale of Union Carbide's assets.