00:00On the night of December 2nd, 1984, the people of Bhopal, India, went to sleep.
00:05They never got the warning that was coming.
00:07Forty tons of methyl isocyanate gas poured out of a union carbide pesticide plant
00:12and rolled through a city of 500,000 people.
00:15By morning, at least 3,500 were dead.
00:19Hundreds of thousands more were blinded, burned from the inside, or left with permanent damage.
00:24Here's the part that should haunt you.
00:26The company knew.
00:28Internal documents showed the plant had been falling apart for years.
00:31Safety systems had been deliberately switched off to cut costs.
00:35Alarms that should have woken the city sat silent.
00:38When it happened, Union Carbide's response wasn't grief.
00:42It was damage control.
00:43The CEO, Warren Anderson, flew to India and was arrested.
00:47Then he posted bail, flew home, and was never extradited.
00:52He lived out the rest of his life in a beach house in the Hamptons.
00:55No one at the top ever served a single day in prison.
00:59The company simply calculated that paying for the disaster was cheaper than preventing it.
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