There were people at the time who pushed back against Midgley and his employer with respect to leaded gasoline. The power differential overwhelmed their critici

There were people at the time who pushed back against Midgley and his employer with respect to leaded gasoline. The power differential overwhelmed their criticisms for decades until years after Patterson definitely proved how bad it was. A utilitarian argument in favor of a flatter power landscape is that such a landscape may have stopped tetraethyl lead, at least for automobiles and house paints. Whether or not this would have caught CFCs, I don't know.