Comparison between the Seveso Disaster in Italy and Disaster in Bhopal, India

         The Seveso disaster happened on 10^th July afternoon, 1976, when a white fog absconded from a slight chemical plant in Meda, Italy. The people of Seveso as well as Meda that time did not realize what was actually happened and they were just watching as the fog slowly drop away on them (worldatlas.com).

        Meanwhile, a disaster which occurred about thirty years ago in Bhopal, India happened in the night of 2^nd December 1984, was a mass accident at the  pesticide plant. This disaster even has considered as one of the worst industrial disaster in the world (TAYLOR).

The causes of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

            The Seveso disaster was caused by the industry activity of the Industrie Chimiche Meda Societa (ICMESA). The company was famous as a manufacturer of Trichlorophenol (TCP), the materials meant for use in the production of antiseptic soaps. Tetrachloropedibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) was one of the components of the fog which reported for about one kg of 2,3,7,8 TCDD was released at that incident. The composite is claimed to be an established carcinogenic which produced once the temperature upsurge for more than 200° Celsius from the production process of TCP. Thus, the accident was caused by an uncontrolled upsurge temperature along with its compression which steered up the construction of TCDD and its ensuing outflow since the shelter faucets at the top of the reactor blasted out (worldatlas.com).

            In the other hand, the disaster in Bhopal, India was caused by the entrance of water into a tank that was containing Methyl isocyanate which triggered a chemical reaction and consequence in the construction of huge Carbon dioxide. This reaction developed the temperature within the tank up to above than 200 ° Celsius. Since the tank could not be able to control the pressure, then a result from it, a mass amount of toxic gasses was leaking to the environment. Thus, about 30 tons of methyl isocyanate, along with other toxic gasses released by this incident (TAYLOR).

The effects of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

            The effects of the Seveso disaster occurred for more damage on animals than human beings. The report mentioned for about 447 cases of Chloracne attacked the children at that time, which is a skin disease due to the contact of toxic hydrocarbon chemicals. About above than 80,000 animals had to be slaughtered, in order to protect the food chain, and numbers of domestic animals died because of the incident (worldatlas.com).

Meanwhile, the effects of the disaster in Bhopal, India was leading more damage and caused to more people died. About above than 600,000 residents were being uncovered to this toxic and deadly gas, and the number of deaths from this incident reached the number of 15,000 people (TAYLOR).

Aftermath of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

        The effect of Seveso disaster in the community turned out to reflect the industrial, political, and religious conflicts in the society. The disaster even has made the European Community released the regulations for industrial safety in 1982, named with the Seveso Directive (worldatlas.com).

        The same thing also happened aftermath of the disaster in Bhopal, India. Since the disaster considered as the worst industrial disaster in the world, the community along with the government in India has released many regulations based on this incident, such as The Environment (Protection) Act in 1986 and Factories Act in 1987 as well (Broughton).