OTC inhalers to be phased out to protect ozone layer
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Somewhat off the ozone topic but aligned with the headline, nevertheless, a quote from Vladmir Putin, from the AP today, reflecting on his expected run for the 2012 Russian Presidency:
“The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. But this should always be done openly and honestly, and then the overwhelming majority of people will understand their government.”
That would be like for Stalin saying you should dress warmly during winter months to avoid catching a cold.
I’m not exactly the most rabid Putin hater (he’s comparatively far less worse than almost all his predecessors) but it’s a far call for him to practice what he preaches.
I’m so glad the politicians in this country are qualified to tell us what sort of medical devices we ought to use.
Love your avatar. Transmetropolitan is my favorite comic book of all time.
Isn’t it interesting how only patented products are good for the environment — until their patents expire, at which point we discover that they’re bad for the environment and therefore need to be banned, only to be replaced by other patented products?
I have had asthma since early child hood, I didn’t know these existed. I went to the store the other day and couldn’t find any.
Evil and stupid.
I’m surprised there has been no contrarian post. Yet.
If the CFC’s are destroying the ozone layer and, in turn, are destroying humanity, then why is this ban inappropriate?
Is this not a property right protection?
Just sayin’.
I don’t think that CFCs are doing anything particularly bad to the ozone layer or to anyone’s private property. Apparently there is a huge black market for Freon, especially in the third world, and supposedly (I’ve been told) there is probably as much Freon being used and released into the atmosphere as there ever was before it was banned. If CFCs were really killing the environment then I think you would have heard more and more hysteria over UV rays, blindness, cancer, etc. but instead, ever since the replacement chemicals were patented and approved (and presumably selling for many billions of dollars at least in the developed world) you never hear of the “ozone hole” any more.
You can imagine what a far bigger and far more harmful scam the “global warming” business is. A criminal falsification of data leading to bans and heavy taxes and transfer payments not just on certain chemicals or drugs, but on energy itself and every single activity which is related to or depends on energy, which is to say almost every economic activity on earth. It makes the CFC scaremongers look like pikers.
Nope. Government does not produce “rights.” It can merely respect them or not respect them. Also, government is not able to decide whether CFCs are destroying the ozone layer.
I was just reading up a bit on “Silent Spring”. The timing was just about right, with the book coming out not long after the 1943 US patent expired on DDT, and presumably right around the time that replacement insecticides had begun to be patented. But it seems that Rachel Carson never called for DDT to be banned, but only advocated its more careful use. So I assume that Carson was not personally a tool of the companies holding the new patents, but the huge media campaign and the “movement” that “sprang up” after her book had something to do with secret lobbying and funding.
Likewise, the campaigns against Freon and 2-4D (herbicide) probably owe a good deal to secret propaganda campaigns linked to the expiration of their patents and the issuing of new patents for replacement chemicals.
“But it seems that Rachel Carson never called for DDT to be banned, but only advocated its more careful use. ”
This would be a sensible and defendable position.
Embarrassed to say I’ve not read _Silent Spring_, nor any of her essays/interviews. This is interesting and I must follow up.
Re your comment on the “global warming” racket, aka, climate change, I would agree that the ozone hole scare seems to have subsided, but sadly the former is still in full force. Just recently I’ve heard comments and confidently embraced dictates from the left (and even some on the right) that civilization-induced climate change and its disaster-impending consequences were scientifically “proven” and accepted, in spite of the ostrich mimicking tools of multi-nationals.
Makes one wonder what kind of horror will be introduced when Roundup’s patent expires…
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