Word: cfc
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...Still, for all the complaints that environmentalists cry wolf on non-existent threats, no one offers up bigger howlers than lobbyists describing an attempt to protect the planet as a dire risk to the economy. Twenty years ago, a consortium of trade groups warned that banning CFC's to protect the ozone layer would throw thousands out of work. When CFC's were phased out beginning in 1987, nothing like that happened (except that the ozone layer continued to deteriorate as the atmosphere absorbed CFC's released during years of stalling...
...Worse still, the fact that the hole in the ozone layer was recently reported as being larger now than it was 13 years ago when CFC outputs were curbed suggests that some of the environmental damage wrought by human behavior today may take many years to manifest. It could take a decade or more of climatic crisis to generate a widespread sense of urgency about changing lifestyles. Politicians may ultimately be forced to wait. The planet, unfortunately, will...