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Article: A mode for global action.(Editorials)(The Montreal Protocol on ozone proves it's possible)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2007
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Byline: The Register-Guard
The script is familiar: Scientists warn that human activity is causing an environmental problem with severe worldwide consequences. It's predicted that fixing the problem will be disruptive and expensive.
Developing nations blame the industrialized world for having created the problem and balk at assuming responsibility for corrective action. Developed nations worry that the problem can't be addressed without a broad global commitment. Overlying everything is a cloud of doubt about the cause of the problem, its severity and the effectiveness of the prescribed remedies.
Global warming? Well, yes. But the same type of ...