The U.S. under Reagan aggressively attacked ozone depletion and was more aggressive than Europe, with Washington Republicans pushing for action, because the Council of Economic Advisers showed that phasing out ozone-depleting chemicals was a tremendous bargain (~$21 billion cost) yielding far larger benefits in reduced cataracts and skin cancer—even unilateral U.S. action would have been justified.
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Cass SunsteinEvidence Quote
“the Council of Economic Advisers came into the White House at a crucial moment said in terms of cataracts and skin cancer this is a tremendous bargain for the United States it's so much of argan that if the US the world's leading producer of ozone-depleting chemicals phased out those chemicals in a short time that unilateral action would be justified for the United States”
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