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...most effective ways to change public policy are community mobilization, constructive political criticism and honesty, Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina told about 100 people last night in the Starr Auditorium at the Institute of Politics...
...Molina, the first female Latino to be elected to the California legislature, also said she wants to empower the Latino community by encouraging political participation...
...learned very quickly that we need to learn how the political system works," Molina said. "We need to make it work for us and to respect the diversity of our claims...
...alarm first sounded back in 1974, when Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine warned about the destructive impact that CFCs could have on the atmosphere. Before banning these important industrial chemicals, however, scientists had to confirm that CFCs did in fact attack ozone and that society produced enough of the chemicals to create a ! problem. Within a few years, most scientists accepted that CFCs were a real threat, though uncertainties remained. In 1978 the U.S. banned the use of CFCs in aerosol sprays and began pushing for international controls...
What also frightens scientists is the fact that CFCs remain in the atmosphere for decades after they are emitted. In their original research, Rowland and Molina estimated that CFCs can last 100 years or more. Even if CFC production stopped today, researchers believe that stratospheric levels of chlorine would continue to rise, peaking during the first decade of the next century and not returning to anything like natural levels for at least a century...