Midgley’s legacy is the negative environmental impact of leaded gasoline and freon.[28] Environmental historian J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley “had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”,[29] and Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed “an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny”.[30] Fred Pearce, writing for New Scientist, described Midgley as a “one-man environmental disaster”.[26]

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