These included disabling safety sirens to prevent panic among the community, lying to worried workers that MIC was safe, having untrained workers man dangerous equipment, and switching off the refrigeration required to store the volatile poison safely, among many others.
The final scenes of Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain are hard to erase from memory. In the closing slides of the film, it tells us that some 10,000 bodies were counted in the first 72 hours after the disaster. Bodies were littered across roads, train tracks, in lakes and dilapidated hospitals. The sense of outrage is only compounded by the events that followed.
Anderson knew that profits were down. Down because of an excessively long drought. Without rain water, crops could not grow. If crops were not growing, then farmers were not buying the pesticides that Union Carbide was manufacturing right there in Bhopal. Sales were in a steep decline.
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