Much comparison is being made between America’s treatment of Union Carbide responsible for the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India and of BP for the Gulf of Mexico oil leak.  In America, President Obama is responding to the concern of his own citizens.  In India, despite many more deaths and far higher levels of toxic pollution, the government has felt no electoral need to respond and/or the people felt helpless to exert pressure and/or they didn’t care.  As for Bhopal and America, it protected its own. Such are the workings of democracy.

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