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0 pointsfargle3y ago0 comments

actually 3-4 ORDERS of magnitude worse

Say two people were to eventually die here. Bhopal: 20,000. That's literally 4 orders of magnitude worse. And nobody has died or been seriously injured yet, so even that is premature.

Being chicken-little is not helpful. The next stage is being "boy who cried wolf". OP: Let's keep things in at least a little balance.

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sbaiddn3y ago

So I didnt know what to compare for the orders of magnitude.

Like you said, by death it's more than 4 (since as far as i know no one has died yet).

But by affected area, toxicity normalized mass of spill, amount of ground water affected, etc, I don't know how they compare. And a cursory search showed it would be hard to get clean data.

But any way you slice it, you're right. Two orders of mag is not enough. Bohpal was such a tragedy :(

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