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Listen to our first audio documentary on how we solved the ozone crisis, the biggest environmental disaster humanity encountered before climate change.
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Bonus content: An interview with Naomi Oreskes.
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How lessons learnt then can help us solve the climate crisis today.
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Bonus content: Once there were billions.
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How we saved the planet.
Sources: Ozone layer recovery is on track, due to success of Montreal Protocol | UN News, | Ozone Secretariat (unep.org), About Montreal Protocol (unep.org), Oral history interview with Mario J. Molina - Science History Institute Digital Collections.
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Bonus content: A folk tale.
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How scientists fought against ozone denial.
Sources: IN THE FACE OF DOUBT | The New Yorker, Look Up and Live. (The Ozone Is Still Tiere.) - The New York Times (nytimes.com), INERT | The New Yorker.
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How hair sprays and deodorants almost destroyed the ozone layer.
Sources: Oral history interview with Mario J. Molina - Science History Institute Digital Collections, Oral History Interview with F. Sherwood Rowland | OpenSky (ucar.edu).
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Bonus content: All about ozone.
Sources: A Killer of a Cure | Science History Institute, The Great American Fraud/Chapter 3 - Wikisource, the free online library, The History of Ozone (illinois.edu), Nasa Ozone Watch: Ozone facts.
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How the world got rid of lead in gasoline.
Sources: REVIEW: Clair Patterson and Robert Kehoe: Two Views of Lead Toxicity (uniwa.gr), Chemical concentrations of pollutant lead aerosols, terrestrial dusts and sea salts in Greenland and Antarctic snow strata - ScienceDirect, Historical changes in integrity and worth of scientific knowledge - ScienceDirect, The Removal of Lead from Gasoline: Historical and Personal Reflections - ScienceDirect, LSU Press :: Books - A Thousand Ways Denied, The Ancient Oyster - Country Roads Magazine, The Development of the Louisiana Oyster Industry in the 19th Century. (lsu.edu), Historical review of European gasoline lead content regulations and their impact on German industrial markets (Technical Report) | ETDEWEB (osti.gov), Precautionary Principle and the Kehoe Principle • LITFL • CCC.
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Bonus content: All about a forgotten profession.
Sources: Iceman (occupation) - Wikipedia, When Everyone Wanted to Be the Iceman - Gastro Obscura (atlasobscura.com), Delivering Blocks of Ice: The Story of the Icemen Through Vintage Photos - Rare Historical Photos.
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How the refrigerator changed our lives.
Sources: CFCS RISE AND FALL OF CHEMICAL 'MIRACLE' - The Washington Post, The History of the Refrigerator: How Our Ancestors Kept Their Cool (familytreemagazine.com), The Birth of The Refrigerator: How We All Ended Up With One (memphisice.com), How It All Began: The History of the Refrigerator (liebherr.com), Ice trade - Wikipedia, White Goods in Italy during a Golden Age (l948-1973) on JSTOR.
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Bonus content: Jamie Kitman talks about being an environmentalist and a car enthusiast.
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How one man’s inventions almost destroyed the planet.
Sources: The Secret History of Lead | The Nation, When Work Drives You Mad: Tales from the Deadly "Loony Gas" Building | Mental Floss
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Bonus: Jonathan Shanklin talks about his experiences in Antarctica.
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How scientists discovered a hole in the sky.
Sources: Ozone Layer (nationalgeographic.org), Ozone depletion - Wikipedia, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018 (noaa.gov).
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