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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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