“˜No Ordinary People’ campaign
ineffective
Human trafficking and sex trading are unforgivably atrocious
actions and have absolutely no place in modern society.
However, I think the way the “No Ordinary People”
campaign was approached last week was ineffective.
It seems that the group attempted to shock and scare people. A
mattress showing prices for strippers and child sex slaves, people
yelling at you asking if you want to pay to satisfy your sexual
appetite: I fail to see how this helps the cause.
While it did open my eyes somewhat to a big problem, these
things mostly just made me uncomfortable.
In fact, I began to avoid the people yelling at me from beside
mattresses.
Perhaps if there were more focus on what people like me could do
to help, or even a place to donate for this cause, I wouldn’t
feel the need to avoid the groups.
Nicholas A. Skewes-Cox First-year,
Mathematics/economics
Clearing global warming confusion
In Rashmi Joshi’s column “Cheap clothes can have
high cost,” (Jan. 26) she writes that “it seems like
everything causes global warming: aerosol cheese, air conditioners,
cars.”
To the contrary, the cheese sold in aerosol cans does not
contain ozone-depleting toxins.
Furthermore, Joshi seems to confuse two issues: the thinning of
the earth’s upper ozone layer and global warming.
While it is true that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) released by
aerosol products caused lasting damage to the earth’s upper
ozone layer before initiatives in the 1970s, the use of CFCs as
propellants was banned in the U.S. for virtually all aerosol
products since 1978.
Since the ban on CFC propellants, the U.S. Department of
Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
has reported evidence that the ozone layer’s destruction is
slowing.
Global warming and the thinning of the ozone layer are separate
and unrelated problems.
The earth’s upper ozone layer acts like a shield that
protects organisms on Earth from the dangerous ultraviolet
radiation given off by the sun.
If certain chemicals such as CFCs were continually released into
the atmosphere, they would deplete the upper ozone layer.
Global warming refers to the effect that increased greenhouse
gases have had on the earth’s climate.
While greenhouse gases are natural as well as man-made, there
has been an increase over time in greenhouse gas emissions due to
human activity.
Christine Goss Consumer Aerosol
Products Council (CAPCO)