Select a human-induced disaster that has occurred in the past 5–7 years. Prepare a 4-page reflective essay about the people most affected by the disaster. Categorize the victims according to their...

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The Bhopal Tragedy: A Man-Made Disaster to Ruin Man
Disaster in any form is life threatening and the aftermath of any disaster is tragic. But it is
always painful if human beings are killed or severely affected by any disaster which has been
caused by fellow human beings. Human induced disasters are devastating and their consequences
are pathetic. To learn more about such disasters I did conduct extensive studies and was shocked
to see how human carelessness can claim innumerable innocent lives. While conducting the
esearch I came across one such disastrous man-made folly which is better known in history as
the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. I was shocked to learn about the number of people who were killed by
the disaster which was caused by leakage of methyl isocyanate gas from the pesticide plant of
Union Ca
ide India Limited of Bhopal in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. I realized that
though the disaster took place in 1984, the tragedy still looms in those families who lost their
near and dear ones in the tragedy.
I did learn that the disaster affected almost the entire society of Bhopal and there cannot
e any specific demarcation among the victims. The victims can only be divided into male and
female and on the basis of age as almost the entire community of workers of the factory and the
locales of the adjoining areas of the plant were affected by the disaster in general. And what is
most pathetic is that instead of standing beside the families of the victims the company which
was actually responsible for the disaster tried to keep itself disassociated from the entire issue for
avoiding legal responsibilities. Though eventually the company was forced to accept its moral
esponsibilities to the affected community and paid the compensation amount but the amount
was meager in comparison to the immense human sufferings which was caused by the disaster
which was actually the result of the company’s negligence. The effects of the disaster devastated
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the physical health and the mental/psychological health of not only the victims but also of the
members of the victims’ families.
One of the deadliest man-made disasters in the history of mankind, the Bhopal Gas
tragedy not only resulted in the mortality of thousands but also debilitated innumerable number
of people. People of almost the entire township of Bhopal were exposed to different harmful
factors of the gas leakage and the future of myriads of the inhabitants of Bhopal was ruined by
the disaster. The disaster affected the health of the inhabitants severely. The gas leakage was so
harmful that of the “more than 200,000 persons exposed to the gas, the initial death toll within a
week following the accident was over 2500.” (Shrivastava , 2011) The exposed were not faced
with higher rate of mo
idity but they also suffered from respiratory, psychiatric and...