Jobs are in jeopardy. Efforts to plug the ozone layer put coal on the back burner.
Jobs producing CFCs are off into the stratosphere.
But for workers in polluting industries, it's not all bad - unions have a plan to ensure it's the problem and not the workforce that is dumped. Throughout the industrial world old, polluting industries are dying. Consumer boycotts, toxics reduction policies, media campaigns, informed and active consumers and victims' organisations and legal worries are putting pressure on the environmentally unfriendly to close up shop. Harsh lessons are being learned, too late for some. Failure to act can be financial and industrial suicide.