The main cause of climate change - carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels - is really just another pollutant. And countries know how to reduce harmful pollutants.
Public outcry eventually led to policy changes, despite pushback from industry. Once pressured by laws and regulations, industries ramped up production of safer solutions.
I am an earth and environmental scientist, and my latest book, Reclaiming Our Planet, explores history's lessons in overcoming seemingly insurmountable hazards.
Despite disinformation campaigns and attacks from the chemical industry, tremendous public pressure on politicians led to congressional hearings, state and federal restrictions, and eventually a U.S. ban on the general use of DDT in 1972.
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