Precisely because global industry's reliance on CFCs is too deep, even at the beginning of the 1980s when the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica was already quite apparent, big business was still saying, "the hole in the ozone layer is not necessarily directly connected to chlorofluorocarbons," and making various excuses to postpone action.
正因為全球產業界對氟氯碳化物倚賴太深，因此直到八○年代初期，南極天空的臭氧層破洞已經很明顯時，大企業主們仍以「臭氧層破洞不見得和氟氯碳化物有直接關係」等理由搪塞拖延。