Bhopal Gas Disaster’s Legacy Lives On 25 Years Later
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The UK’s Telegraph posted an article this week revisiting the world’s worst industrial accident that occurred 25 years ago in Bhopal, India when a poisonous gas leaking from a Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) plant killed thousands of people and injured hundreds of thousands more.
Diane Wilson, activist and author of An Unreasonable Woman and Holy Roller, is mentioned in the article.
Anderson (former Chairman of Union Carbide), who is now 88, has never commented publicly about Bhopal, and for many years appeared to have vanished from view, lying low in his homes in Florida and the Hamptons. The last person to gain a public utterance from him was an environmental activist named Diane Wilson, who in 2006 stood outside his home in the Hamptons for two days holding a placard saying warren, shouldn’t you be in jail? Finally, Anderson appeared. ‘He was very tanned and for an elderly person he was very athletic,’ Wilson told me. ‘We got into a discussion and he pretty much said that he had gone to India, done the right thing and he wasn’t willing to discuss it any further. Then he left.’
