BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Was BRAIN DRAIN to blame for the deadly Bhopal Gas Leak?
This week, The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) decides who is to blame for the world’s worst Industrial disaster: The Bhopal Gas Leak. Rebecca is joined by Special Guest Nelson Franklin (Blackish), Fact Checker Smith and Producer Lund. They also talk with Guest Expert, Professor Ravi Rajan Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
On the board this week: Union Carbide Corporation, Pesticides, Snooze Effect and UCC Brain Drain.
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| 0:25.0 | An Erios original. And Ereio's Original. I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:29.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation |
| 0:32.0 | into the worst case scenario in my own brain. |
| 0:40.1 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:43.8 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest |
| 0:49.0 | disasters and find out who's to blame. |
| 0:55.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:58.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:59.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith, |
| 1:02.0 | and I am The Alarmist. |
| 1:07.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Alarmist, a comedy podcast where we talk |
| 1:14.3 | about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we'll |
| 1:18.6 | be discussing one of India's biggest disasters and honestly one of the world's biggest disasters. |
| 1:25.4 | The Baupaul Gas Tragedy. |
| 1:28.0 | Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:30.6 | Baupaul is a city located in the Central State Region of India. |
| 1:35.0 | It is known as the city of lakes, boasting various natural and man-made lakes |
| 1:40.0 | with beautiful lush green surroundings. But in 1984, it was the setting for the worst |
| 1:47.8 | industrial disaster known to humankind. In the 1960s India was facing severe food shortages. |
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