Had we done nothing, CFCs from inhalers would be something like 1/3rd of total emissions right now (simply because of the drop). But it's far worse. The world population is much higher now, and healthcare is much more accessible around the world. India, China, the Philippines, many countries with hundreds of millions of people can now prescribe them; they were never included in any 1991 numbers because their healthcare systems weren't that well developed back then. If you factor all of those people in, the majority of CFCs would be emitted by inhalers.
CFCs and Inhalers are a significant problem. No one deserves to get skin cancer because of CFCs.
You should blame manufacturers and the insane patent system, not the scientists working hard to keep the planet from dying.
They caused massive damage to the planet. And they continue to do so, the CFCs they emitted will be in the atmosphere for decades.
https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/crj/1998/137198.pdf In 1991 metered inhalers were responsible for 1% of all CFCs. Since then production has gone down 30-fold https://i0.wp.com/research.csiro.au/acc/wp-content/uploads/s...
Had we done nothing, CFCs from inhalers would be something like 1/3rd of total emissions right now (simply because of the drop). But it's far worse. The world population is much higher now, and healthcare is much more accessible around the world. India, China, the Philippines, many countries with hundreds of millions of people can now prescribe them; they were never included in any 1991 numbers because their healthcare systems weren't that well developed back then. If you factor all of those people in, the majority of CFCs would be emitted by inhalers.
CFCs and Inhalers are a significant problem. No one deserves to get skin cancer because of CFCs.
You should blame manufacturers and the insane patent system, not the scientists working hard to keep the planet from dying.