tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post5965803150270549103..comments2024-02-29T10:14:57.263-06:00Comments on Diaristic Notations: Mortgages and OilKim Mosleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17658600791743162004noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post-81788885511282705492010-06-04T12:01:43.574-05:002010-06-04T12:01:43.574-05:00We are humans, deeply flawed specie, disaster is o...We are humans, deeply flawed specie, disaster is our natural companion. H.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3610430154861217625.post-41773392857088720232010-06-04T07:01:27.612-05:002010-06-04T07:01:27.612-05:00In the book Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (by Lapie...In the book Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (by Lapierre and Moro), there is a scene where the fire in the tower is shut off. The fire existed in the tower as part of a safety mechanism. If deadly gas escaped a containment chamber, it would go up the tower and get burned off by the fire. The fire was shut off for cost cutting reasons. As part of his last act as an employee of Union Carbide, this one man (whose name is no longer stored in my neurons) climbs the tower and relights the fire. He knew this would get him fired, but he did this to send a message to anyone who would hear it. It wasn’t real long after that that the deadly gas cloud went through the city killing thousands of people and every other living thing that needed to breathe.<br /><br />The full title of that book is Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster. . . Well. . . maybe not the deadliest now. We’ll see.Kate Freemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07826311771326897525noreply@blogger.com