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Out of curiosity, how would the prohibition of CFCs work before there were a replacement? Or would that be something like the anti-GMO crowd that feasts on thei
by Fins 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how would the prohibition of CFCs work before there were a replacement? Or would that be something like the anti-GMO crowd that feasts on their organic free-range heritage breed quinoa salad while telling people in developing world that there's not enough food for them, because GMO is evil, so drop dead?
- TangoTrotFox 9y agoDo you think that CFCs were the world's first refrigerant?
- Fins 9y agoThere was a reason we moved to CFC, wasn't there? Switching back and forth woulds be pretty expensive.
- TangoTrotFox 9y agoYes, swapping would have obviously come with a cost. The point was that swapping would have been entirely possible. Instead DuPont, even knowing full well the potentially global and catastrophic level of damage they were causing, successfully lobbied to prevent any regulation against them for the better part of a decade after their effects became widely known. And it's highly likely that DuPont understood the dangers well before then.