Sorry I'm unable to make it more clear. I'll try again.

The number proven in court was 3,800 (actually that's rounded-up). The number was derived by body counts. various folks count bodies, but this was the number that the court decided was most accurate.

Now assume that the folks who counted bodies missed about 20,000 bodies (Greenpeace's and several other NGO's number). Assume that the NGO's are right--that there were 20,000 uncounted but DEAD (that's the NGO's assertion...not just some sort of nebulous affects).

Assume that the average weight per dead body is 100 pounds.

100 X 20,000 = 2,000,000 pounds of flesh laying around Bhopal that folks need to bury.

What I intended to imply by this macabre arithmatic is that a gross undercount would have been obvious even to .gov workers after a couple of days in the tropical sun.

We all know that companies want to make money, that is their goal. Often they will lie to cover some misdeed or other. Gov and lawyers all know this, so everybody is always watching them. That's as it should be. If companies can't be kept in line by internal ethics and rules, then we gota box their ears with the law, fines, and jail.

But NOBODY serves as a watchdog to NGO's. Okay, the IRS looks at them with a benevolent eye. But there is no agency of gov, nobody who's job it is to follow NGO's every move, misrepresentation, misappropriation, or misdeed.

As a result, Greenpeace or any other NGO can say almost anything and poeple swallow it as though it were true. So what if they're wrong, their heart is in the right spot. Right?

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