Another gross misrepresentation in the CFC wars comes in the form of a near total coverup of the resulting costs of the CFC ban.  The coverup is mostly in the form of a deep silence.  The fact is, the banned CFC compounds are currently the backbone of the refrigeration industry.  Over the years, public opinion has been quietly shaped to accept the ban, although the enormous cost it carries, both in monetary terms and in human life, have been kept from the public.

Few people are aware that the replacement chemicals are close to fifty times as expensive to buy, are inefficient, are totally incompatible with every refrigeration system existing today, and become poisons when subjected to high temperatures.  Few people are aware that the CFCs were created, because people had died from the earlier refrigerants.  As the result of these deaths a crash program had been launched to create a refrigerant that is non-flammable, non-poisonous, non-toxic, non-corrosive, that is chemically inert, and so is not likely to cause any harm to anyone, and is highly efficient as an refrigerant on top of all that.  The CFCs were the brain-child of the most advanced chemists of the time, nor is there an arbitrary variety of chemical combinations possible to achieve these goals.  Apparently there exists but one such combination.  Also, the CFCs are a tightly integrated part of the refrigeration systems that exist the world over.  These systems where specifically built according to the characteristics of these chemicals.  The chemicals are a part of the system and cannot be simply replaced with another.  The systems have to be scraped in their entirety once leakages can no longer be replenished.

The banning of the production of CFCs, therefore requires immense changes.  It requires the total replacement of all refrigeration and air-conditioning systems in the world.  Another little known fact is, that the replacement chemicals are destructive to all petroleum based substances, such as lubricants.  The lubrication problem requires unique materials and expensive designs, which invariably adds to the cost of any new equipment and still shortens its life-span because of increased wear.  All this adds significantly to the ever increasing cost of refrigeration, which are expected to become truly huge.

The cost for replacing all existing equipment, world wide, is estimated to be near the five trillion dollars mark by the year 2005.  This is a gargantuan sum to be committed at a time when hospitals are shut down for lack of funds.  The cost in human life, however, is still higher.  The high cost and reduced durability of the new equipment will almost certainly put refrigeration out of the reach for countless millions in the poorer nations of the world, especially in tropical regions where refrigeration is needed the most to prevent the spoilage of already scarce foods.  Current estimates based on increased spoilage of food, as refrigeration becomes less and less affordable, suggest that an increase in the death rate from starvation of 20 to 40 million deaths per year will occur, including a rise in food poisoning, and starvation related diseases which is expected to begin shortly after the breakdown of the cold chain has taken effect.

This enormous cost, both in financial terms and in human life, must now be judged against the (none-existent) harmful effects that the CFCs are said to produce, for which these enormous human sacrifices are demanded.  The question that becomes imperative, therefore, is an intrinsically moral one.  For the average nation around the world, the economic cost involved is equal to that nation's current national debt.  This means, since the national debt of most nations of the world is currently unrepayable, the economic cost of the CFC ban, which will have to be born in short order, is equally unpayable.  Thus, the refrigeration chain across the world will break down.  This means that refrigeration and air-condition will largely disappear, beginning at the poorer nations, but sparing none.  The question should be asked, can the human cost of such a destruction be justly demanded and morally be justified?  Society should ask itself how many human lives it is prepared to sacrifice to the pseudoscientific insanities with which the oligarchic elite has befuddled mankind?

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