Most experts agree
ozone depletion due
to CFCs, chemicals

Dear Editor:

Conwary to a recent article by
Greg Wilson (Consumers bearing
‘oat of ozone scare.” Dec. 10,

1993) that CFCs are not a threat to

the ozone layer, there is abundant
evidence that these chemicals are
indeed an environmental hazard.
The ozone layer has been
declining by about 3% per decade

in the mie- and low latitudes since .

1980.
wa: The majority of atmospheric
- scientists agree that this decline is

_due-to the rising concentrations in
he atmosphere of CFCs and relat-
ed chemicals. ,

‘In the Antarctic. where CFCs
have definitely been linked to
ozone depletion, the seasonal
ozone hole this year wits the deep-
est and longest-lasting on record.

.. The Antarctic ozone hole did
not exist until the late 1970s and
carly 1980s, when CFC concentra-
tions were becoming high.

- Wilson notes that the emissions
‘of. CFCs are dwarfed by the mil-
lions of tons of chlorine released
into the atmosphere by the oceans,

: However, the vast majority of -

this chlorine is in the form of. sea

salt, which is quickly dissolved in
rainwater and returned to earth,
never rising the 30 kilometres
above sea level needed to reach the
ozone layer.

The annual amount of chlorine
injected into the ozone layer by
volcanoes is also quite small in
comparison to the more thaa
300,000 tons of chlorine from
min-mide CFCs and related
chemicals that find their way into
the ozone layer each year,

The increase of CFCs in the
atmosphere is a serious problem.
However, the international com-
munity has agreed that elimination
‘of these ozone-depleting sub-
stances is a necessily

The rate of increase of the cun-

_ centration of CFCs in the atmos-

phere has slowed significantly in
the last year due to this internation-
al cooperation,

Canadians should be proud to
be a world leader in this environ-
mental effort to protect the ozone
layer, without which. life as we
know it would not exist on this
planet.

Eric Taylor
Environment Canada

One: man’s wish list on
record for coming year

Dear Editor: ;

“The following is one man’s New
Year's wish list for 1994,
<. To our-elitist politicians and
media who persistently refuse to
truly listen to their constituents and
who rationalize their own positions
through “managed” studies, reports,
statistics, town-hall meetings, vlc.:
ithe integrity. to'see themselves as
others sce them and to use their
power and influence to lead
‘Canadians in their quest for iW itue
“democracy, -

To the Sikh’ political activists
who organized the Remembrance
Day media event at the Newton

" Legion while, the final notes of the”

Last Post were still echoing frone:
he North Share mountains: get
‘lost. Canuda“has no use for reli-
1, Bious nationalism. Co:

©. To Canada's: “potitically cor-
ect,” who, like the European
Geialists and fascists of the 1920s

“and 1930s, exploit racial, retigious,

ethnic and sexual differences in
order to destabilize Canada's potiti-
eal, social and economic structures:
the wish that the devil had rendered
you deaf and dumb at the same

lime as he rendered you blind to all

that was good about Canada,

To the 39 Sikh members of the
RCMP wha, according ta RCMP
Commissioner. Norman. Inkster, do
not wear turbans while on duty:
congratulations on your individual
decisions to be Canadians as wel
las Sikhs, and good tuck in your
professional careers,

To the one Sikh member of the
RCMP whose demands to be recog:
nized asa Sikh while on duty were
obviously concocted by political
activists in his community: the wis-
dont to reconsider the duality of bis
responsibilities as a Sikh and a
Canadian and to recognize that he
san, proudly, be bath.

W.A. Burton
West Vancouver

Sentence the essence of Collins

‘Dear Editor: ; :
At last we have the distilled
ence of Doug Collins.

His egotism, paranoia and mon-
umental irrelevance are all beauti-
fally encapsulated in the first sen-
tence of his column in your issue of

ednesday, Dee. 15: “Being me is
‘a bit like being with Custer’s last

When the day finally comes,
that sentiment could provide the
theme for his obituary:

“Doug Collins last stood here.
Well Known as 9 general cusser, he
was always right’—- very far to the
right — and everyone around him
wits oul of step.”

Eric D. Jamieson

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