Chemicals

In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 546–550 (2009)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Toxic Chemicals in the Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Loss and Global Warming References and Further Reading.

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artificial chemicals ‐ invented, manufactured, sold and used under advertised assumptions that they will provide humankind with benefits   use of CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) ‐ as refrigerants and propellants found to be eroding stratospheric ozone   “persistent organic pollutants” (POPs) ‐ also banned or restricted by Stockholm Protocol   toxic chemicals in the arctic   Inuit infants have provided “a living test tube for immunologists”   POPs ‐ linked to cancer, birth defects and other neurological, reproductive and immune‐system damage in people and animals   Native people in Greenland ‐ seventy times as much of pesticide hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in their bodies as temperate‐zone Canadians   stratospheric ozone loss and global warming   scientists discovering that many of the chemical reactions that deplete ozone are cold‐activated ‐ the colder the temperature in the stratosphere, the more severe the ozone loss

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9781444310795   9781405146012

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10.1002/9781444310795.ch97

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