Read the Union Carbide Corporation and Bhopal case Your completed assignment mus

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Read the Union Carbide Corporation and Bhopal case

Your completed assignment must address the items required as outlined below:

Consider the concerns as described in this case and prepare a memorandum that addresses the concerns described below. Your memo should be completed in narrative form (you may use headings if you choose to do so for organizational purposes, but do not list your responses in bullet form). Maximum page length: 10 pages (double spaced).

Identify all of the potential ethical issues you see (if any). Describe and analyze the implications of each issue, including who or what were affected by the company’s response. In identifying issues and addressing their implications, your discussion should be as comprehensive as possible—you should consider any economic, social, or ecological implications, as well as the potential impact at least two cultural differences you can identify.               

Additionally, your analysis should thoroughly identify and discuss at least two potential courses of action that the company could have taken with respect to each issue you have discussed. Clearly demonstrate your reasoning process—identify and explain any ethical principles or arguments you are relying on; do not simply state unsupported conclusions.

If you choose to apply any approaches to ethical reasoning that you learned about in this course, clearly state what they are and how you are applying them to this case. Of the possible solutions you identified, which would you recommend that the company should have adopted as a resolution? Again, fully explain and justify your recommendations. Finally, explain how you would implement each solution you have recommended.

Explanation / Answer

BP and union carbide disaster are one of the biggest disasters in the world which have influenced millions of lives. BP oil spill was one of the biggest disaster of its kind and has directly affected thousands of people were relying on the specific resources.
Union carbide disaster was one of the most vigorous disasters of the history, it shook the whole world and the became a reason of mass destruction and responsible for the death of thousands of people.

These two disasters are considered as one of the most intense disasters of the world but in both of the disasters the justice is not the same.
Union carbide India was only fined $2,100 after a trial of 23 years by a local court of Bhopal for being negligent towards the specific accident. After that they were multiple settlements and Indian government also shoot the company union carbide for 3.3 billion dollars in 1985 which was later settled for 470 million dollars.
In the BP oil spill, government is supporting the BP and they have done extremely expensive relief work while maintaining so many relief programs and a proper duration of the specific disaster. But in Bhopal there is no such support from the government. Company responsible for the specific accident and the people who are involved in specific negligence are roaming freely. After effects of Carbide gas is still present in Bhopal but there was no or very little rehabilitation done by the government or by the company who was responsible for the specific accident. This is specific stereotype different accident at the same intensity or Bhopal disaster has increased in intensity as it involved death of thousands of people at the real time is totally unjustified.

BP oil spill has been properly treated by each and every government inside United States of America as well as other countries. BP has been given its by the government and the proper care of oil spill has also taken to reduce the overall effect of the specific disaster.

On the other hand Bhopal disaster was left and wasn't really created according to its size and intensity. Bhopal disaster has influenced millions of lives and still influencing millions of people but there is very less rehabilitation as well as compensation work done by the company or by the government.

The stereotypes the industrialization on our society. Be the specific Industrialist has influenced the government as well as markets by a large marge in which directly give them opportunity to neglect importance of public as well as the mass destruction. They can simply ignore and go on their normal lives even after the normal public is affected hugely.

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