Half a million Indians died overnight. What is the story behind the disaster?

Human nature is evil, and nature is also false. Today's human nature, born with good results, is right, so fight for life and die? Xunzi believes that human nature is evil, and everyone likes advantages and dislikes ugliness. Judging from the development of human history, Xunzi's view of human nature is more objective.

When greed and sin occupy reason, humanity and conscience are insignificant in front of glittering silver. In the era of great navigation, western colonists sold slaves endlessly in order to open up plantations, and some people even sacrificed 500 thousand Indians to save 30 dollars.

In order to develop foreign trade, India cooperates with the United States. 1969, the United Carbide Company of the United States established a chemical plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, to produce pesticides such as dichlorvos and carbaryl, including methyl isocyanate, a highly toxic gas.

For more than ten years, chemical plants have continuously discharged all kinds of industrial wastewater, and the farmland around Bhopal has been destroyed. Although farmers protested constantly, it didn't work until1984 65438+February 3, and it rained for several days.

The steel tank for storing liquid methyl isocyanate is open-air without any protection. In order to save the maintenance fee of $30, the person in charge of the company not only did not replace the steel cans, but even casually maintained them. For more than ten years, steel cans have long rusted. This morning, the steel can finally came to the end of its life, and a trace of toxic gas broke through the bottleneck.

What followed was a series of big holes that burst rapidly, and all 40 tons of toxic gas poured into Bhopal. More than 500,000 residential areas within 40 square kilometers of Fiona Fang were shrouded in fog. People were awakened from their sleep by the pungent smell and began to cough, and their eyes looked like pepper water.

The whole town is crazy, and every family doesn't know what happened. Some people closed the doors and windows, others fled outside. But in less than an hour, bodies began to appear in the streets, people began to go blind, and children had the worst resistance. They were the first to die. Overnight, 25,000 people died in a town with a population of more than 500,000.

More than half a million people are infected with poison gas, which is spreading everywhere. The hospital was full of people, and the wailing filled the whole hospital. Doctors know nothing about toxic substances and can't think of a cure. It was not until three days later that doctors from various cities in India rushed to Bhopal for help.

When the toxin dissipated, people returned to the town. The street is not only crowded with people, but also with chickens, dogs, cows and sheep. On rainy days, the whole town is like hell. As for Warren, CEO of Union Carbide? Anderson immediately returned to the United States as the head.

India's repeated requests for extradition failed. Although the families of the victims kept demonstrating, it had little effect. Until four years ago, the American chemical company paid 280 million pounds in one lump sum, and there was no more. Warren. Anderson has not been punished and still lives in new york.

However, in the next 20 years in Bhopal, the victims of poison gas died of diseases one after another, with the number as high as 500,000 and the permanent disability exceeding 200,000. What is even more frightening is that the new generation of Bhopal still lives in the shadow of this disaster. The Ministry of Health is testing the nearby soil and groundwater, and they find that toxic pollutants continue to pollute the water and soil in the surrounding areas.