Imagine waking up one morning after going to bed healthy as a horse, without seeing your eyes accompanied by a burning sensation, stabbing pain in your lungs that makes it difficult to breathe and with no idea what caused this effect. This was the feeling experienced by more than 200,000 people in Bhopal, India, on December 3, 1984. A pesticide plant operated by Union Carbide Corporation, an American company, suffered a gas leak from tanks containing methyl isocyanate (MIC). . Methyl isocyanate reacts with water producing toxic gases which spread towards human settlements causing devastating effects. This is just one among many other disasters caused by industries. The causes of these disasters and the responsibilities for the disasters themselves are the main focus of this document. Air pollution directly affects the health of humans, as highlighted by the Bhopal disaster, so it is important to understand the relationship. Although industries are not the only causes of air pollution, pollution from industries should be controlled by taking all necessary safety measures and taking into account the unintended consequences that could be caused by a fault in the equipment. Lee Davis is a well-known environmental expert who has written a series of books focusing on the environment and how it is changing. In his book Environmental Disasters, he focuses on man-made 20th century disasters. It demonstrates how the individual, industries, and government all contribute to air, water, and soil pollution that has caused a number of disasters over the years. More emphasis is placed on industrial contribution because industries have caused most man-made disasters to a greater extent. Industrial effects are often... the focus of the paper... on the people who are victims of such disasters and ensure that multinationals take responsibility for their mistakes. All human beings have the right to be treated equally. I look forward to the time when people no longer have to go to court to fight for their rights. Works Cited1. Davis, Lee. 1998. Environmental Disasters: A Chronicle of Individual, Industrial, and Governmental Carelessness. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1998.2. “Top Carbide brass held, Anderson released.” The Times of India News Service, 7 December 1984.3. Nandini, Gunewardena, and Schuller, Mark. 2008. Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.4. Rosenberg, Tina. “What the world needs now is DDT.” New York Times, April 11, 2004.5. Subrahmaniam, Vidya. “25 years and I'm still waiting.” The Hindus, sec. Opinion, December 02, 2009.