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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: thedoc on 13/12/2011 18:04:50

Title: What made the Montreal Protocol so successful?
Post by: thedoc on 13/12/2011 18:04:50

Richard Hollingham investigates why ozone depletion sparked unanimous change around the World in 1987 and whether a similar feat could be achieved to fight Climate Change...
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1901/)

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Title: Re: What made the Montreal Protocol so successful?
Post by: grizelda on 19/12/2011 22:28:00

If the government solution to CFC's had been to tax them instead of a ban we would probably be using twice as much by now. Probably greenpeace is being paid by the oil industry to promote hysteria against nuclear power so there is no alternative to oil.

Title: Re: What made the Montreal Protocol so successful?
Post by: peppercorn on 20/12/2011 17:45:27

Quote from: grizelda on 19/12/2011 22:28:00

If the government solution to CFC's had been to tax them instead of a ban we would probably be using twice as much by now. Probably greenpeace is being paid by the oil industry to promote hysteria against nuclear power so there is no alternative to oil.

And I thought I was cynical!

Surely it was only so easy to ban CFCs as there was a ready alternative; at only fractionally higher cost.  Also, then, the weight of vested interests opposing change was almost nil - instead now we have pretty much every economy in the entire world.

Plus more or less everyone can visualise the risk of dying of cancer caused by UV radiation.

Title: Re: What made the Montreal Protocol so successful?
Post by: Geezer on 20/12/2011 18:55:29

Quote from: peppercorn on 20/12/2011 17:45:27

Plus more or less everyone can visualize the risk of dying of cancer caused by UV radiation.

Shsssss! The Greek economy is in bad enough shape as it is.