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Re: The Limits To Growth
bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK ) wrote:
>Perhaps, then, you can offer a principled discussion of the scientific
>literature on ozone and the effect on it of CFCs.
Scott seems to think this is a witty remark to make about wolves and
caribou. Go figger.
I am not up to date on the latest ozone-CFC findins: there seems to be
some feeling around that the Treaty of Montreal was overkill, and that
the ozone hole may be a result of natural volcanism.
In any event, the negotiation of the Treaty seems to me to have shown
a salutory conservatism and was a great indicator of our ability to
bring diplomacy and regulation to bear where they are relevant.
I hope that we do not overuse these, diplomacy and regulation, to the
point where the mass of the population become disenchanted with them
from scaremongers crying wolf too often.
Aha! That's the connection Scott was making. Silly me.
-dlj.
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