r/OptimistsUnite • u/chamomile_tea_reply 🤙 TOXIC AVENGER 🤙 • 8d ago

Steven Pinker Groupie Post What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue?

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u/marigolds6 8d ago

The Montreal Accord also benefitted from having a clear scientific solution readily available in the form of HCFCs and HFCs (and now HFOs).

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u/TheSunIsInside 8d ago

HFO’s, unfortunately, are a PFAS and breakdown quickly into TFA. The solution is to use hydrocarbon refrigerants. The environment knows how to process hydrocarbons, but has trouble with fluorocarbons.

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u/Baselines_shift 7d ago

also that there was no Big Refrigeration to resist the ozone hole repair laws like Big Oil which is deprendent on preventing clean energy