14 Sep
2000
14 Sep
'00
11:52 a.m.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
It isn't patents, it is the CFC treaty (Osaks?)
that bans the production
(first) and then use (second) of CFCs based on their alleged, but unproven,
impact on the ozone layer surrounding the earth. Note that I do not dispute
that there is a gap in the ozone layer around the earth, only that no one
has yet given anything more than conjecture on why it exists, and since we
don't have historical data on its existence (or lack thereof) we don't yet
have anyway of proving or disproving said conjectures, but something that
_was_ a provable way of saving _actual human lives_ was banned because of
it. </soapbox>
The ozone layer probably didn't exist until we invented electricity :0
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