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The Bhopal syndrome : pesticides, environment, and health
- Title
- The Bhopal syndrome : pesticides, environment, and health / David Weir.
- Author
- Weir, David, 1947 April 14-
- Publication
- San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, ©1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA1270.P4 W399 1987 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 210 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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 and avoidable. Tragically, Bhopal is being repeated, not just as explosions, infernos, and deadly clouds heard, felt, and seen, the world over, but as 'mini-Bhopals'- smaller industrial accidents that occur with disturbing frequency in chemical plants in both developed and developing countries. Even more numerous and deadly are the 'slow-motion Bhopals'- unseen and chronic poisoning from industrial pollution that causes irreversible pain, suffering, and death. This book presents a journey through many continents and shows the pervasiveness of 'the Bhopal Syndrome." These shocking revelations are a manifestation of something fundamentally wrong in our stewardship of the earth, and shows that change is needed in the value systems of our industrial enterprises so that the health and safety of both people and the environment is paramount, superseding any technical or commercial considerations. -- from Foreword.
- Subjects
- 1984
- Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster > (Bhopal, India : > 1984)
- Union Carbide India Limited Agricultural Products Division
- Union Carbide India Limited > Agricultural Products Division
- Bhopal
- India > Bhopal
- Umweltgefährdung
- Giftgasunfall
- Pesticides > Toxicology
- Pesticides industry > Accidents > Health aspects
- Chemical industry
- Pesticides > poisoning
- Chemical Industry
- Accidents, Occupational
- Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0871567180
- 9780871567185
- 0871567970
- 9780871567970
- LCCN
- 86045430
- OCLC
- ocm15284679
- 15284679
- SCSB-1175958
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library