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by marcosdumay 1033 days ago
Acid rain was stopped by controlling the amount of sulfur in the fuel and adding catalyzing converters at the engines output. It has no relation with lead.
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Okay, so I confused the cause of the acid rain with an entirely different man made climate atrocity. The point still stands if not even stronger as we've just provided a separate example
True, acid rain was not caused my lead but there was public and industry resistance to requiring all vehicles use catalytic converters. Lead had to be removed from fuel because it corroded the catalytic converter. It was chaotic for several years but the car industry was able to make it work. The market didn’t remediate acid rain, regulation did.