How Ignoring Proper Safety Precautions Caused the Bhopal Gas Tragedy | Prism of the Past

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Blair Zoń

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Get 25% off and zero delivery fees on your first order of $15 or more, when you download the DoorDash app and enter code PRISM. Welcome to Prism of the Past, a weekly series about historical events, people, and situations, from the fascinating to the forgotten. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Round a Round- Martino Tempersta Outro Song Credits: Relax Yourself- Sleeping Ghost Ad Music Credits: Tango de Manzana by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4460-tango-de-manzana License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Backbay Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3408-backbay-lounge License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Industrial disasters are tragic, especially when they're preventable.
0:36.0	Insufficient safety measures and carelessness created a perfect and deadly storm in 1984,
0:41.0	which in my opinion hasn't gotten the attention it deserves.
0:44.0	People still suffer from the fallout of the bullpaul disaster to this day
0:48.0	and may continue to do so for many years to come.
0:51.0	Hello and welcome to Prism of the Past.
0:55.0	My name is Blair or the Illuminati and today I want to talk about the Bo-Paul Gas
0:59.6	Tragedy or the Bo-Paul disaster. There's a lot to unpack here, so let's just get right into it.
1:05.0	It all starts with the UCIL factory.
1:11.0	Built in 1969, the Union Carbide India Limited Company had plans to approve and build a plant in
1:17.5	Bopal and had a 99-year lease on an industrial zone.
1:21.6	The area around the plant was relatively unpopulated, though there are two lakes nearby, and the main
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