After he had concluded his work in Southeast Asia and returned to Taiwan, the issue of environmental damage in Taiwan was gradually breaking out into the open. At the end of 1984 in Bhopal, India, 45 tons of poisonous gas leaked out of a pesticide factory owned by the US firm Union Carbide. In one night 2,500 people died and 50,000 were seriously injured, with some 100,000 people being forced to evacuate.
就在他結束東南亞工作返台後，台灣環境遭破壞的問題逐漸爆發出來：1984 年底，印度波帕發生美國永備公司農藥工廠 45 噸毒氣外洩，一夜間 2500 人中毒死亡，5 萬人嚴重受傷，10 萬人被迫撤離。