Antarctic ozone hole hits record size

Every year scientists measure the hole in the ozone layer of the 
atmosphere and find a hole over Antarctica. Part of the hole is 
natural, but part is caused by pollution, and on September 3rd, 
the hole reached a record 11 million square miles, at a 
surprisingly early date in the southern hemisphere's winter.(1)

Depletion of the ozone layer causes ultraviolet light from the sun 
to reach the surface of the planet where it causes the smallest 
plants in the food chain to die and humyns to get cancer. The 
polluting device that first attracted public attention to the 
ozone layer was the aerosol can--ubiquitous in the Amerika of the 
1970s.

Under pressure from the proletariat, the capitalist ruling classes 
signed a global treaty on the ozone layer called the Montreal 
Protocol. MIM reviewed a most excellent book on the subject called 
Ozone Diplomacy by Richard Elliot Benedick.(2)

The capitalist system is not best suited for the fight against 
pollution. In the case of the ozone, refrigerator and air 
conditioner equipment owners opposed the banning of their 
equipment. Also, black marketeers make profits for avoiding the 
terms of the treaty which ban ozone-depleting pollutants. If the 
public owned all property, no one persyn would take the whole loss 
for doing the right thing vis-a-vis the environment. That is why 
socialism is superior for the environment. The class with no 
special interests to protect in eliminating pollution is called 
the proletariat.

When it comes to cigarettes, ozone-depleting substances and other 
harmful items that kill people, bans cause opposition under 
capitalism from profiteers. Under the dictatorship of the 
proletariat no one will have the right to invest in the death of 
other people. The right to the most healthful environment humynly 
possible is not negotiable.

Notes: 

1. Boston Globe 9 Sep 2000

2. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bookstore/offbooks.html