Prickly City by Scott Stantis for December 29, 2022

Yep!

And sometimes, Yes.

Something must be done.

…And only governments can do it….

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By 1984, the ozone layer over Antarctica’s Halley Bay research station had lost one-third of its thickness compared to previous decades.(Jonathan) Shanklin and colleagues Joe Farman and Brian Gardiner published their findings the following year, suggesting a link to a human-made compound called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), used in aerosols and cooling devices. Their discovery, the thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica, came to be known as the ozone hole. 

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Since its heyday, the story of one of the gravest environmental problems that humanity has faced has largely fallen from the radar.

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“It’s not the same cause for alarm that it once was,” says Laura Revell, associate professor of environmental physics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

This is largely due to the unprecedented international steps that governments took to tackle the problem.

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Since its adoption, the Montreal Protocol has been signed by every country on Earth – to date the only treaty to be universally ratified. It’s widely considered a triumph of international environmental cooperation.

According to some models, the Montreal Protocol and its amendments have helped prevent up to two million cases of skin cancer yearly and avoided millions of cataract cases worldwide.

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Had the world not banned CFCs, we would now find ourselves nearing massive ozone depletion.

“By 2050, it’s pretty well-established we would have had ozone hole-like conditions over the whole planet, and the planet would have become uninhabitable,” says Solomon.

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https:

//www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to-the-worlds-ozone-hole

i wasn’t aware that personal, portable earthquakes are a thing…

Yes, when we suddenly have to pee right now we make bad decisions.

maybe they will be too busy with their petty investigations to create any knee jerk legislation

Just don’t do something, stand there!

Thank God Carmen is not making those decisions, she just confessed to making bad decisions, who will ever trust her again, I ask you…

Well, it’s why we invaded Iraq after 9/11…

Bad decisions are always done by Democrats, then America and Working Americans suffer.