Re: Scientists Endorse Ozone Chemical Ban

[Mark Robinowitz <mrobinowitz@igc.org>]

This is all very nice, but there are some glaring problems.

CFC smuggling is the second most profitable illegal commodity into the US in
Miami (after cocaine).

Our "friends" at the Environmental Defense Fund and Natural Resources
Defense Council went along with a "linguistic detoxification" of many ozone
depletors in 1988, when numerous CFCs were renamed H-CFCs.  (HCFCs are NOT
banned by the Montreal Protocol, and are still produced.   They are several
times more harmful to the ozone layer than Dupont/EPA claim.)

The entire US stockpile of ozone eating methyl bromide is all made in
Arkansas, a reason why Clinton refuses to take action.  It's also used by
agribusiness in Florida and California, whose campaign contributions were
sought by the same political hack president.  Guess Al Gore forgot his words
of 1990, when he noted that it took 15 years to understand what we've done
to the ozone layer and that we didn't have 15 years to solve the problem.
Shameful that anyone concerned with the future continuation of stable
ultraviolet levels on Earth would vote for Clinton -- there's no difference
between methyl bromide promoted by Demicans and methyl bromide promoted by
Republicrats.

As Ronald Reagan might say, it's no skin off my nose.

Mark Robinowitz

PS -- Gore's complete inaction on the ozone layer disqualifies him
completely on any integrity that he might have once had regarding the future
of the biosphere.  

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 He's the bully coward in the bully pulpit."
 - Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, 11/5/96
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At 05:04 PM 11/26/96 -0500, you wrote:
>For your info.  This relates to current issues, like the scheduled ban to phase
>out the Class 1 ozone depleting pesticide Methyl Bromide that manufacturers are
>fighting.  P. Dines
>
>--- FORWARD ---
>From: INTERNET:sf.moderator@sfsierra.sierraclub.org
>To: Patricia Dines, 73652,1202
>To: sc-action@igc.apc.org
>Date: Sun, Nov 24, 1996, 1:57 AM
>Subject: SC-Action #310- Scientists Endorse Ozone Chemical Ban
>
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>IN THE NEWS: SCIENTISTS ENDORSE OZONE CHEMICAL BAN
>
>Dutch scientists reported in today's issue of the journal Nature 
>that international action to fend off depletion of the earth's 
>ozone layer averted a skin cancer epidemic.  Researchers at 
>Utrech University estimated that up to 1.5 million skin cancer 
>cases were averted each year in the U.S. alone.  They concluded 
>that global policymakers dodged a disaster by acting to prevent 
>further erosion of the Earth's protective ozone layer.  The study 
>bolsters previous scientific findings supporting the phaseout of 
>halocarbons -- ozone destroying chemicals.
>
>Last fall, House Majority Whip Tom Delay (R-TX) and other 
>Republican congressional leaders called for lifting of the ban, 
>citing scientific uncertainty.  
>