> What in particular has the production of CFC gas got to do with capitalism? Not of CFC in particular, but the production in general does. There is an argume

> What in particular has the production of CFC gas got to do with capitalism? Not of CFC in particular, but the production in general does. There is an argument of David Graeber somewhere that socialist economies were effectively places where workers (who had benefit of full employment and government guarantees) didn't have to work very hard, so the resulting national product was lower. There was, albeit implicit, social contract saying that it's OK to work maybe 6 hours a day, because the state economy is bad anyway. Capitalism, being more efficient in, among other things, getting people to work hard, also causes bigger strain on natural resources (actually pretty much any resource). If people were willing to chill out more and work less, then perhaps there would be less fridges and less freons produced.