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- From: parson_r@cubldr.colorado.edu (Robert Parson)
- Subject: Re: EDITORIAL: The U.S. Military's War on the Environment
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.193153.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
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- References: <ACTIV-L.16Nov1992.1753@naughty-peahen>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:31:53 GMT
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- In article <ACTIV-L.16Nov1992.1753@naughty-peahen>, ACTIV-L via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- > [From EcoNet wri.news Conference]
- > [Also Posted to misc.activism.progressive (by Somebody Else)]
- > ================================================================
- > => From: Foreign Bases Project <fbp@igc.apc.org>
- > => Subject: THE [MILITARY'S] WAR ON ENVIRONMENT
- >
- > THE MILITARY'S WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT
- > BY JOHN M. MILLER
- >
- > Exhaust from solid-fuelled rockets and missiles
- > injects large amounts of ozone harming hydrochloric acid
- > directly into the upper atmosphere.
- >
- Rocket and space-shuttle launches contribute very little to stratospheric
- chlorine. One year's worth of shuttle and solid-rocket launches puts
- 0.725 kTon of Chlorine into the stratosphere. Chlorine emissions from CFC's
- and related compounds exceeded 1200 kTon/year during the '80s.
-
- Ref: M. J. Prather et al., J. Geophys. Res. _95_, 18583 (1990).
-
- Robert
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