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== Warisan ==
Warisan Midgley tercoreng akibat [[kerusakan lingkungan|dampak negatif]] [[tetra etil timbal|bensin bertimbal]] dan [[Freon]] terhadap lingkungan.<ref name=Knight-2014>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29568505 |title=The fatal attraction of lead |author=Laurence Knight |date=October 12, 2014 |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref> [[Sejarah lingkungan|Sejarawan lingkungan]] [[J. R. McNeill]] berpendapat bahwa "kerusakan yang ditimbulkan Midgley terhadap atmosfer Bumi jauh lebih parah dibandingkan makhluk hidup apapun sepanjang sejarah planet ini".<ref name=McNeill>McNeill, J.R. ''Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World'' (2001) New York: Norton, xxvi, 421 pp. (as reviewed in the {{cite web |url=http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_9/1101bess.html |title=''Journal of Political Ecology'' |accessdate=October 10, 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040328013401/http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_9/1101bess.html |archivedate=March 28, 2004 |df= }})</ref> [[Bill Bryson]] mengatakan bahwa Midgley memiliki "kecenderungan untuk menciptakan hal-hal yang tidak diinginkan".<ref name="Bryson pg 195">{{cite book | author-last= Bryson | author-first= Bill| authorlink= Bill Bryson| title= [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]] |publisher= [[Transworld Publishers]] |date=2004| orig-year=First published 2003 | isbn=0-552-99704-8| edition= Black Swan paperback | page=195 }}</ref>
Pemakaian bensin bertimbal melepaskan timbal dalam jumlah besar ke [[atmosfer Bumi]].<ref name=Knight-2014/> Tingginya kandungan [[keracunan timbal#epidemiologi|timbal di udara]] menimbulkan masalah kesehatan parah jangka panjang sejak usia dini, termasuk kerusakan saraf,<ref name=CABS>{{cite web |publisher=Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine |year=2006 |title=ToxFAQs: CABS/Chemical Agent Briefing Sheet: Lead |url=http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cabs/lead/lead_cabs.pdf |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5lIOcLzmv?url=http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cabs/lead/lead_cabs.pdf |archivedate=November 15, 2009 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref><ref name=Golub>{{cite book |isbn=978-0-415-70040-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qt8LEB7_HyQC&pg=PA153 |page=153 |chapter=Summary |editor=Golub, Mari S. |year=2005 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |location=Boca Raton, Florida |title=Metals, fertility, and reproductive toxicity}}</ref><ref name=Hu>{{cite journal |last=Hu |first=Howard |title=Knowledge of diagnosis and reproductive history among survivors of childhood plumbism |journal=[[American Journal of Public Health]] |year=1991 |volume=81 |issue=8 |pages=1070–1072 |pmid=1854006 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.81.8.1070 |pmc=1405695}}</ref> dan bertambahnya kekerasan dan tindak kriminal di kawasan kota.<ref name=NYT1>{{cite web |publisher=The New York Times |year=1996 |title=Aggressiveness and delinquency in boys is linked to lead in bones |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/07/us/aggressiveness-and-delinquency-in-boys-is-linked-to-lead-in-bones.html}}</ref><ref name=NYT2>{{cite web |publisher=The New York Times |year=2007 |title=Criminal Element |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21wwln-idealab-t.html}}</ref><ref name=MJ>{{cite web |publisher=Mother Jones |year=2013 |title=America's Real Criminal Element: Lead |url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline}}</ref> Majalah ''[[Time (majalah)|Time]]'' mencantumkan bensin bertimbal dan CFC ke daftar 50 temuan
Midgley meninggal tiga puluh tahun sebelum masyarakat mengenal [[penyusutan ozon]] dan efek [[gas rumah kaca]] [[penyusutan ozon#CFC dan senyawa terkait di atmosfer|CFC di atmosfer]].<ref name=Knight-2015>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33021668 |title=How 1970s deodorant is still doing harm |author=Laurence Knight |date=June 6, 2015 |publisher=BBC News |accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref> Pada tahun 1987, [[Protokol Montreal]] melarang penggunaan bahan-bahan [[klorofluorokarbon|CFC]] seperti Freon.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37665529 Climate change: 'Monumental' deal to cut HFCs, fastest growing greenhouse gases]</ref>
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