Dark skin the answer
NZPA-AAP Hobart Harmful effects of ultra-violet radiation to the skin, caused by depletion of the ozone layer, could be countered by increasing the content of Aboriginal or African DNA in genes of white Australians, a health conference in Hobart was told yesterday. “If you’d had forced miscegenation rather than attempted extermination in Tasmania you might not be so
worried about the. ozone depletion,” an ophthalmologist, Professor Fred Hollows, of Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital, told startled delegates at the Ozone Layer and Health International Conference. Professor Hollows also suggested a midday siesta for outdoor workers and wrap-around sunglasses for surfboard riders as ways to combat the threat to eyesight posed by ozone layer depletion.
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