Observatory Report: Interlude: The Hfc-23 Catastrophe

Filed under: Diagnostic Signals.

Policy becomes the engine of the problem.

Carbon credits rewarded destroying HFC-23.

Companies manufactured more precursor chemicals to generate more HFC-23 to destroy.

Emissions spiked.

A planetary-scale Cobra Effect: policy becomes the engine of the problem.

→ Economic Implosions · → The Observation Layer · → The Economics of Manufactured Mayhem

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