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‘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)