Antarctica's Ozone Hole Is Healing And Set To Recover Fully By 2066
Antarctica's Ozone Hole Is Healing And Set To Recover Fully By 2066
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Antarctica's Ozone Hole Is Healing And Set To Recover Fully By 2066
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Isn't that what they told us 20 years ago?
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I think 20 years ago they said it's set to heal by 2050...
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Yes, but then China fucked us for a few years. They've since stopped, which is why the 16 year difference.
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Plenty of time to rip her back open.
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Cool but with all the deniers we should probably stop posting achievements like this.
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Only if it doesn't get ripped open by satellites burning up at high altitude again.
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Eh. The solution to the ozone layer was to replace refrigerant A with refrigerant B. A 1:1 swap that required very little effort from anybody.
Getting off fossil fuels more or less mandates an entire global paradigm shift in how we do basically everything. The entire global economy of the past 200 years has been built off an unsustainable energy source.
Sure, we can replace gas with batteries, but every step of the way is going to require small changes in how people do things, and they're going to be very resistant to that.
the key was that the producers had to be forced to take action, as consumers had very little agency in choosing cfcs.
no ad campaign for individual responsibility there, as there was really nothing you could do.
If refrigerant reacts with/eats away at the ozone layer, why is there such a big hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica?
I'm somewhat pessimistic. Even if humans zeroed every single pollution, it won't be free on us, there's a bill to be paid, and Mother Nature will effectively charge us for this debt. And it'll not be cheap.
put it away, he's in a good mood.