"Chlorofloro what now?"
"Chlorofluorocarbons. We just call them CFCs."
Capitalisticles stared down at his scientist's invention. A test tube of blue liquid slowly turning green in his mind. "What does it do?"
"It's like a tiny jet fuel. We put it in hair spray, and the girls will flip."
Capitalisticles delighted in the casual misogyny. It fed him like ambrosia. He wondered how best to monetize that nectar.
It took a few years, and a few sunburned penguins, but eventually scientists that didn't work for Capitalisticles noticed that the Ozone Layer was being depleted. The chemistry was interesting. The Chlorine in the CFCs was getting busted up in the upper atmosphere along with the O3. This made it so Chlorine and Oxygen combined rather than Oxygen recombining with itself.
Now I don't know about you, but O2's one of my favorite molecules, what with the keeping me alive and stuff. Meanwhile Chlorine's the stuff we throw in pools so that they don't grow moss.
It was taken as a Double Whammy by scientists.