By this method, it is proposed that a single chlorine atom can eat up many thousands of ozone molecules in its time in the stratosphere, were it will always be regenerated again into pure chlorine.  Thus, a catastrophic cascading theory had been created that is used to scare humanity.  Little is said, however, about the fact that the lonely atom of chlorine, should it come from CFCs which make up one part in five billion parts of air, would have quite a hard time to actually find an ozone molecule.  Ozone is rather quite rare.  Even in the ozone layer, its highest concentration seldom exceeds 15 parts per million.  An ozone molecule, even at the densest point of the ozone layer, has a far lesser chance of actually coming into contact with that lonely chlorine atom that is deemed to come from CFCs, than a person has in winning the lotteries, provided that the CFCs do actually get into the stratosphere at all where they would be robbed of their chlorine.

Chlorine from natural sources which is 100,000 times more abundant, are ruled out by the depletion theory as if they didn't exist.  It is evidently this very much larger source, that accounts for the minute traces of chlorine that are found in the stratosphere.  In the face of such a vast differential between natural sources and the potential man-made source, it is unreasonable to assume that all chlorine in the stratosphere comes from the minuscule man-made source that is outnumbered 100,000 to 1 by the natural abundance of chlorine in the atmosphere.  And further, it is even more unreasonable that this irrational assumption should be made the basis for robbing mankind of a vital element of the refrigeration chain that is estimated to result in up to 40 million deaths per year.

The chief plank in the depletion theory, ironically, happens to be the most defective.  The catastrophic aspect of the cascading theory has been modelled electronically.  The modelling is fundamentally flawed in that it is based on the assumption that the chlorine in the stratosphere comes exclusively from the breakup of CFCs, assuming that the stratosphere is the only sink for CFCs.  Thus, the computer modelling is useless in that proceeds in total disregard of the world's natural sources of chlorine and the fact that CFCs tend to settle into the ground and into the oceans to be broken down by bacteriological processes, rather than being lofted up into the stratosphere.  In other words, if there is chlorine in the atmosphere, it must have been there since time immemorial.  The cascading destruction, therefore, if it exists at all, must obviously have been in progress for millions of years as an integrated part of the natural cycles that prevent an overaccumulation of ozone from poisoning the lower atmosphere in which we all live.  Indeed, ozone is poisonous to living organisms.  Where it not for the natural destruction of the ozone in the lower layers of the atmosphere, where ozone decays within a few months, life may not exist on this planet as we know it.

There is a natural balancing cycle in progress, enacted by forces that operate on such a gargantuan scale that the effects of human activities, which are so minuscule in comparison, tend to be of no impact at all except in the minds that are stirred up with scare stories into frenzies of fear.

It is a deliberate  misrepresentation of facts which the ozone depletion rhetoric puts forward, insisting that the only possible sink for CFCs is their destruction in the stratosphere by UV radiation, contrary to all the proven facts that significant amounts of CFCs are found taken up by the soil where they are broken down by bacteria, with measurable quantities found in the oceans where they are routinely used as tracers for studying water movements between the various ocean depths.  The question has been asked, "if CFC molecules are so adept in rising to the stratosphere, what are they doing at the bottom of ocean?"  The fact is, that accidental leakages of Freon 12 in refrigeration shops, have been observed not to waft up and dilute themselves into the surrounding air, but are found to remain stratified at the lowest point in the building where the leakages have occurred, where they displace the air as they are significantly heavier.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche