- Item #A970
- ISBN: 0871567970
- ISBN13: 978-0-871567-97-0
- 210 pp.
- Price: $10.00
This classic work, once again available, examines the implications of the world's worst industrial disaster for three communities around the world harboring extremely hazardous chemical facilities like the Union Carbide pesticide plant, which gassed the city of Bhopal in India.
The Bhopal Syndrome begins with an account of the "Hiroshima of the chemical industry," placing it in the context of the global pesticide industry. It urges that the community's right to know about such hazards be recognized and that pesticides be subjected to more rigorous testing before they are released. The book concludes, "Before reversal becomes impossible, our society will have to limit the concentration of wealth, power and global decision-making by ever larger, more tightly centralized and undemocratic corporate empires."
What People are Saying
His work is in that honourable tradition of American muckraking journalism, standing up for private citizens' rights against the power of big business. Yet Weir goes beyond whistle-blowing to offer ways of curbing demand for the agrichemicals - the only realistic brake on the momentum of the Bhopal syndrome.
-- The New Internationalist