Honestly I have no clue where I stand on the issue of CFCs and their effects on the ozone layer. It seems every other article I read is telling me the exact opposite of what I saw in the one before that. While I agree that anything we can do to stop the further destruction of the ozone layer is going to help us in the long run, I do feel that the governments around the world were a little hasty in jumping on the "ban CFCs" bandwagon. If engineers and manufacturing companies can come up with alternatives to CFCs in the production of refridgerators and alternatives for aerosol cans, I say go for it. Why put more CFCs into our atmosphere than necessary?
However I do think that the government went a little overboard, scaring the public by claiming that these CFCs were causing the rapid depletion of the ozone layer, and that this would put people at a serious risk for cancer, when in reality they had very little research supporting their claims. As the first article stated, the oceans release almost ten times more chlorine into the atmosphere in a year than we could, and a single volcano eruption produced more than we could in a lifetime. The fact that the oceans and volcanoes have been around longer than most of us can even comprehend and the world hasn't melted away yet, should be more than enough proof that the small amounts of CFCs that we do produce will not bring about the end of the world. If the government feels that it's necessary to make a claim such as the one they made, they should have at least had a little evidence to back it up before trying to scare people into believing something that wasn't necessarily true.
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I definitely agree with your opinion. If there are safer alternatives, then we should use them, cause who knows what could happen if we continued the use of CFC's. I don't think it's right for the government to tell people that CFC's cause all these problems when they don't have a sufficient amount of information and research to make that conclusion, but some times I think the only way to get people to listen and to get them to take it seriously is to instill panic in them.
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It is a hard issue to pick a side. CFC is one of the causes that affect the ozone layer by chlorine molecules breaking the ozone down. There are other objects that affect the ozone like vehicles and factories. Even places affect the ozone like the see and some mountains. It is hard to choose if it was right or wrong.
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I also agree with your opinion about not knowing where to stand on the issue of CFCs. I also think it is weird that they scare people as well with banning CFCs. I feel like there should be more experiments run to influence me to pick a side.
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