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Cap & trade is an effective system for lowering emissions but the system it self allows corporations to continue. The reductions aren’t as big as they need to be

AC causes the world to be hotter bc of electricity use. But without it, more deaths will happen in POC neighborhoods during heat waves when they’re the most vulnerable to power loss.

China, India, & Indonesia might catch up in cooling to the US who is the top energy user

Obama really didn’t show out on climate change like he promised

“Carbon footprint” is oil industry propaganda to push responsibility onto the consumer. The Montreal protocol did more to lower greenhouse gasses than the Kyoto Protocol would have.

Claims that Americans are addicted to air conditioning & making us less resilient to heat? Maybe but I need AC

HFC ended up contributing to global warming by being used as an alternative to prevent ozone depletion. After the discontinuation of CFCs in 1996, smuggling from Russia started (they were granted until 2000 to stop production).

There is no closed system on this planet, we’re all connected & climate change affects us all

DuPont only admitted to defeat & discontinuing CFCs because it only made up 1-2% of their business and they could profit with alternatives over their competitors. They claimed scientists had cried wolf when it was them the whole time.

Legal binging agreement between multiple countries to reduce CFC’s is enacted but every year they meet to reassess.

The “hole” in the ozone is more of a depletion yet its increase can directly create more skin cancer cases. Pro-CFC orgs claimed skin cancer was self-inflicted. Working outside in the sun was the cause of the cancer out of economic necessity rather than voluntary tanning.

Scientists estimated the dip in the ozone in spring Antarctica was due to natural causes, not human. They were wrong

1978 federal ban on nonessential CFCs

The chain reaction of a chlorine molecule in the air destroys oxygen faster & wider than nitrogen. This caused panic over aerosols from consumers in the 70s after scientists published this

A 1% depletion of the ozone could cause a 10% increase in skin cancer in the Northern hemisphere. High speed jets never took off because of cost analysis more than the effect they’d have on the environment.