It is nothing but ironic that a conference hosted in the name of energy and environment has one of the invitees to be a person who has many allegations against mistreating the same. Dow Chemical, one of the largest chemical companies in the world has a strong repute for being notorious against the environment by its reckless negligent activities. Right from the days of Vietnam war, when the American population rose against the corporate giant for their aid in manufacturing napalm, to the failure to rise up to the occasion and clean up the still contaminated site at Bhopal where one of the worst industrial disasters of the century happened 23 years ago, or to the polluting of the river in Midland Michigan – Dow has continued to unleash its toxic emitants on the environment without respite. Their failure to clean up the mess and havoc created by them on the surroundings where fellow humans live have given rise to numerous cases of activism and strong show of dissent in many locations across the globe. In spite of the fact, that they be called upon to grace a conference hosted by IU would be nothing but an insult added to the already mental agony suffered by the millions of victims across the world and those who continue to suffer so, in the name of growing economy and corporate culpability.
Harini Gopalakrishnan\nStudent
