I’m an Australian, The hole in the ozone layer was a real threat and my skin was definitely negatively affected by the amount of UV I was exposed to. When it was publicised, we saw a social and commercial shift in use of CFCs.

Aerosol cans with CFCs were removed and recycled (probably generating more waste, but whatever).

Mechanics and technicians working on A/Cs and fridges were much more careful with refrigerant.

10 years later, when the Hole recovered, we anecdotally observed less cases of severe sunburn. It may have also been a social awareness thing: with more people using Sunscreen et al, but the measurable reducing in UV was undoubtedly also a factor.

The benefit of removing airborne heavy metals (Pb-based paint and exhaust) is less measurable,but I feel that people with less exposure in their lifetime were more cognitive.

I also deal with a few people in my life who are CC denialists. They are also Y2K denialists so maybe they were exposed to significantly more lead paint than me…

I was gonna say, I bet this person also thinks that Y2K was overblown and that the polio vaccine was worthless.

In my lifetime I’ve been told there’s a hole in the ozone layer

I won’t dignify the rest of that sentence by quoting any further. You have literally the entire world’s knowledge at your fingertips and instead you sit there being a fucking moron.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol - a problem being fixed doesn’t mean there was never a problem.

Climate change is real and catastrophic, demands radical and urgent change, and has been globally recognized by scientists for decades. The ways many corporations and governments have framed it, and the non-action disguised as action they have promoted, are self-serving bullshit. You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

It’s so catastrophic that no one who screams about it can point to anything that’s actually happening or has happened because of it

TF are you on about. We’re in the middle of the strongest El Nino ever recorded. We have giant uncontrollable wildfires all over the planet, and they are getting more and more common. France used to get a major wildfire every few decades, now it’s like every 2 to 3 years. Europe keeps breaking temperature records basically every summer now.

I can keep going. You are just a dumbass that lives under a rock if you can’t see what’s happening around you.

Have you been outside in the last four years

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heat_waves

I’ve lived in Florida & we didn’t have 95F temperatures every single day in August 40 years ago when I was a kid. I was actually able to remain outside all day without getting heat exhaustion. A fucking **glacier **just melted in Nepal and the resulting flood killed hundreds.

You’re either completely delusional or you’re so full of shit, it’s coming out your ears.

My brother in Christ, the hole in the ozone layer fixed itself because we as a race decided to listen to scientists and ban the shit causing it pretty much world wide. A full on concerted effort backed by science. What the fuck.

… you know we fixed the hole in the ozone, tight? Montreal protocol?

Safe to say it seems you have no idea what you are talking about.

Anthropogenic climate change is very real and anyone still in denial about it is worse than a Flat-Earther.

Mate… We fixed the hole in the ozone layer because it was going to kill us… That’s literally one of the best examples of people coming together to solve a global problem.

We had a real problem. Everyone agreed its a problem. Then implemented a long term fix and everyone stuck with it.

You can take the tinfoil hat off. Shit ain’t that deep.

Elon Musk’s satellites are currently re-destroying the ozone layer as they burn up on re-entry. And he plans to launch many tens of thousands more of them.

sciencefocus.com/…/how-elon-musks-dying-satellite…

He’s not the only one, there are a bunch of companies that want to launch fleets of satellites. I read a recent article that said in the very near future, only about one out of every 15 visible “stars” will be natural.

Since the beginning of time, every living creature, including every evolutionary stage of mankind, have looked at the sky in wonder, awe, navigation, science, calendars, romance, beauty, religion, etc. Gazing into the cosmos has been a core human experience for trillions of people since the beginning of humankind, and now these Sociopathic Oligarchs want to STEAL that from every future human, just so they can have a little more money.

Have you seen the movie “Don’t Look Up”?