It's been proven to cause cataracts, which result in cloudy vision, after years of exposure. If we could phase out the use of CFCs , it would be like curing skin cancer in millions and millions of people, erasing millions of cataracts from people's eyes, or growing billions of dollars' worth of food to feed people all over the world. Someone out there must know how to get rid of them. My company really has something to crow about. We're trying to reinvent air conditioners and refrigerators that run on a new fluid that doesn't contain any CFCs.
Some solutions are really simple.
The control and elimination of CFCs is the most important thing we can do to stop the thinning of the ozone layer . New ozone is still being created by nature. So if we can slow down the damage by phasing out CFCs in products and manufacturing, the ozone layer should gradually come back. By working together, people, governments, and businesses can stop making and using CFCs. In fact, many nations of the world have already stopped making CFCs as of 1996.