https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/business/steven-donziger-lawyer-who-beat-chevron-in-ecuador-faces-trial-of-his-own.html?searchResultPosition=2
union carbide
Today, we shared what we learned about Steven Donziger, to the even number students. We sat in groups, and odd number students, including me, thought them about the Steven Donziger, and what happened about him. After that, we researched about the union carbide case. This was about a gas leak accident by the American company, Union carbide. It polluted India and killed about 20000 people.
When we shared the information about Donziger, I realized that I was not understanding the news sufficiently. I couldn't find the words to explain it, and it was difficult for me to find the words to explain. I felt it is essential for myself to understand it perfectly when teaching other people. Because I realized that I was not recognizing much about it, I read the article again, to organize the information. By reading this after the class (there were many things that other people taught me about this case even though I was a odd number student), I got much more information about Donziger, and recognized much about this case.
Furthermore, I was surprised that mr Paterson said only a few people know about this union carbide case. I didn’t know about this too. It is too unusual that it is not known much even though it caused much damage. I am completely convinced to the claim that the media and the government is hiding the inconvenient news from the citizens.
The overall thoughts that I had is that these accidents are very similar to Minamata disease in Japan. We learned about it last year, so I felt a bit of deja vu.
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