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The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Unanticipated Consequences
The Montreal Protocol to phase out CFCs was agreed in 1987. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina shared a Nobel Prize for their work. By now, the impacts of leaded gasoline on human health were equally plain to see. But surround the world we're banning that, too, albeit more slowly.
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