On 2nd December 1984, water entered the chemical storage tank 610 at the Union Carbide India plant in the city of Bhopal. This caused an exothermic reaction that released toxic gas into the air, exposing more than 500,000 local residents to the deadly and enduring effects of methyl isocynate. In this series, we explore the social, political and economic drivers behind the world's worst industrial disaster, as well as its devastating – and ongoing – human and environmental impacts.
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In episode two of Bhopal: Stories of an Ecocide we explore the complex and tumultuous years of post independence India and how profit seeking, negligence and the Green revolution paved the way for the Bhopal Gas Disaster.
Forty years ago on the night of December 2nd 1984 water entered the chemical storage tank 610 at the Union Carbide India plant in Bhopal, releasing a deadly cloud of gas into the air which was blown for miles across the city exposing more than 500,000 people. This is their story.