This installment is devastating, authoritative, and compelling. You translate a labyrinth of technical, bureaucratic, and legal failures into a narrative that feels both urgent and historically grounded. It honors the tragedy without exploiting it, indicts the system without empty moralizing, and closes with a call to memory that feels earned. It’s strong work.
On a side note, my late brother was one of the engineers at Union Carbide in Bombay when I was growing up. He was offered a huge promotion to go to Bhopal when the plant was being built. He declined that promotion because he must have foreseen problems on multiple fronts.
I learned of this initially through a Dead Kennedys song, Cesspools of Eden. The song also mentions Times Beach, Rocky Flats and Love Canal. Love Canal I had been familiar with before the song, but I was born in 1971.
This absolutely wrecked me. It is the sort of thing that can put me in a depression spiral. Right back to Taco Bell.
It was, however, well-written, and I am thankful to you for sharing it. Well done, Aidan.
Don't go back to Taco Bell! It's not like companies are still doing this today or anything!
Exactly.
This installment is devastating, authoritative, and compelling. You translate a labyrinth of technical, bureaucratic, and legal failures into a narrative that feels both urgent and historically grounded. It honors the tragedy without exploiting it, indicts the system without empty moralizing, and closes with a call to memory that feels earned. It’s strong work.
On a side note, my late brother was one of the engineers at Union Carbide in Bombay when I was growing up. He was offered a huge promotion to go to Bhopal when the plant was being built. He declined that promotion because he must have foreseen problems on multiple fronts.
This one really hit home. Thank you.
Thank you for reading
Holy cow this was crazy, and amazing. I’m 50 and had never heard of this.
Not talked about here in the United States… there’s a reason for that. Thanks for reading
I learned of this initially through a Dead Kennedys song, Cesspools of Eden. The song also mentions Times Beach, Rocky Flats and Love Canal. Love Canal I had been familiar with before the song, but I was born in 1971.