Stephen O. Andersen protecting the stratospheric ozone layer. At EPA he rose to Deputy Director for Stratospheric Ozone Protection and then transferred to the Climate Protection Partnerships Division, where he was Director of Strategic Climate Projects until his retirement from government in 2009. The timing of Andersen’s arrival at EPA was fortuitous. 1987 proved to be a watershed moment in the effort to stop ozone depletion, which increased risks of skin cancer and threatened to wipe out crops and ecosystems, among many adverse impacts. The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was agreed on 16 September 1987 and created a
The Horse that Lost its Liberty (1484) under the title “Of the hors, of the hunter and of the hert” as teaching the moral given by Aristotle that "None ought to put hym self in subiection for to auenge hym on other". Samuel Croxall cites Horace’s conclusion that one should never yield one’s liberty to another for reasons of avarice. The fable was told as “The horse seeking vengeance on the stag ("Le cheval s'étant voulu venger du cerf") in La Fontaine's Fables and ends on the reflection that without personal liberty all other purchases are valueless: The alternative version of the fable concerns a boar