Hey, Bob, Don't twist my words. I didn't suggest any such thing.
Do you drive a car? If you do, you put a hell of a lot more crap in the air than I do, and quite frankly, are in no position to say much to me on the issue of the environment. Until you ditch the car and use bicycles, walking and public transit to get around, I'd say I'm on the higher moral ground. BTW, I didn't suggest that we go back to spray deodorant (which I stopped using well before they were taken off the market), I merely pointed out that those accelerants did much more damage than Freon in a can. So did fridges and air conditioners in cars and homes. I merely suggested that the government tends to use very broad brushes, making all sorts of things illegal, whilst many worse offenders are used with impunity. Computers are a huge problem, not just due to the amount of space they take up in landfills, but due to the chemicals that are leaching into the soil from their plastics and electronic innards. Yet, nothing is being done about those. In the meanwhile, I have to use non-mercury cells in my old cameras, which last about 1/5 as long, and which may (in my opinion) pollute more, since they must be replaced so often. That's all I was trying to say. BTW, everything after your "snip" was Keith Whaley, not me. cheers, frank Bob Walkden wrote: > Hi, > > well, the good news is: the hole's getting smaller. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3115409.stm > > Now we can all start spraying our pits and dumping our fridges again > to see if the hole gets bigger again. > > Bob > > Sunday, August 3, 2003, 1:52:55 PM, you wrote: > > > I don't know, but I'd guess that for the number of times one would use > > Freon From a Can, compared to the number of times that most people in the > > so-called "civilized world" sprayed their arm-pits with deodorant (with all > > those evil propellants in those cans), Freon wasn't a huge part of the > > problem. > [...] > >> <snip> > >> Back in the good ol' days, when the atmosphere ruining compounds were > >> not yet thought about. > >> I'm still not totally convinced it was/is Freon type compounds > >> responsible for the "ozone hole"... but can't prove otherwise. -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
