WI No Montreal Protocol (CFCs and HCFCs never phased out)

So if the developed countries never settled on a plan for phasing out chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances, where would the world stand today?

The POD is sometime in the mid-'80s with the failure of the developed nations to reach a consensus on reduction of CFCs and the like.
 
A big defeat for DuPont -- [CFC problem only can up the same year that DuPont's patent expired] -- the price was about to fall to 5~10 cents on the dollar.

There is still controversy over whether the Laboratory Process really works in the Real World.
25 years after the ban the Arctic/Antarctica holes recur annually, and their size seem to have more to do with Temperature, than with any leftover CFC's.

You get more UV by moving from Charleston - to Miami, or Sydney - Melbourne, or London - Madrid, than from any Ozone Hole.
 
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