Twice Poisoned Bhopal: Notes on the Continuing\ud Aftermath of the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster.

摘要

In one horrifying night and through the long misery of nearly eighteen years of\udinjustice that have followed it, the city of Bhopal in India can be said to have\udexperienced the head-on impact of world historical and political economic\udprocesses. In 1969, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) set up a plant to manufacture\udthe pesticide Sevin in Bhopal, with the permission and, indeed, the encouragement\udof the Indian government. This was the heyday of the Green Revolution,\udintroduced in India in the mid-1960s and based on HYV (high-yielding\udvariety) seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and vastly increased irrigation.