Union Carbide, Reagan, and the NRC didn't learn.
Bhopal killed thousands, but the criminal CEO of Union Carbide didn't care.
The 1% are above the law.
Reagan and the CEO of Union Carbide might obstruct the laws of civilized behaviour,
but Reagan and the NRC and Union Carbide can not obstruct the laws of physics.
The lack of accountability creates a moral hazard:
Since they won't be held accountable for their disasters,
and since they have no conscience,
they have no reason to avoid the disaster.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-bhopal-disaster/1316/
The Bhopal disaster
By BaoBao Zhang, June 8, 2010
Court rulings come slowly in India, a country known for its bureaucratic justice system. It has been nearly 26 years since toxic gas leaked from a Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India, initially killing more than 3,000 people and sickening hundreds of thousands more. On Monday, an Indian court convicted seven former top employees at the U.S. company’s Indian subsidiary for playing a part in the disaster. Each of the employees was sentenced to just two years in prison, according to the BBC, sparking outrage across the country.
Here are five things you need to know about the incident and its fallout, nearly three decades later:
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While seven top Indian employees of Union Carbide were held accountable in the ruling, Warren Anderson, the CEO of the company at the time of the disaster, managed to elude the court system — literally. According to The Times of India, an Indian court declared Anderson “an absconder and a fugitive from justice” after he fled on bail to the U.S. to avoid prosecution. Anderson, now 89, lives in a million-dollar house on Long Island and refuses to return to India to face criminal charges.
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