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Capitalist propaganda is effective (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, I feel like it's at least in part because one of the two still has an exclusion zone today...

Reading up on it though, Bhopal definitely should have one

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's also comparing deaths from Chernobyl, but limiting it to 1986 to deaths from Bhopal, both immediate and long term.

    The long term estimates from Chernobyl are debated and still look way lower compared to Bhopal, but the tweet isn't being completely honest.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    While it says in the tweet "in 1986" there are no more than 100 deaths expected from chernobyl. Around 50 were killed at the accident, and around a dozen more in the years after. As of 2005 fewer than 50 deaths were directly linked to the radiation exposure.from the accident itself.

    Dr. Geraldine Thomas explained this pretty good in "The Rational Veiw"-Podcast, linked above. If we hat the same cancer-incidence by radioactivity related exclusion zones but with particulate matter, half the cities of europe would have to be closed off in summer.

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