Toxic dumping on the poor

A few days ago Greenpeace staged an event to create awareness of the decommissioned French Navy aircraft carrier Clemenceau which was preparing to pass through the Suez Canal. The problem? The ship is loaded with asbestos and being sent to India to be turned into scrap metal. Because of the ship's legal status (it is a French government ship) is escapes the Basel convention that would make it illegal to send a ship in such condition without removing the deadly asbestos.

From a moral perspective, I find this delivery disgusting. Playing the legal card and dumping asbestos on a country that will have virtually no regulations to protect the poor workers who will be subjected to this toxic mess is simply not right. India and south central Asia do a lot of work like this and the rich countries just continue to turn a blind eye because the price is right and it's "over there" and not in their backyard. Sad.