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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (14 children)

contrary to climate change we actually took that one seriously.

we humans are very much able to solve all of our (human made) problems perfectly well, no matter how bad things are looking.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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.

[–] PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If refrigerant reacts with/eats away at the ozone layer, why is there such a big hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica?

[–] lurker2718@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago

Gases we emit into the atmosphere are well mixed over the whole globe in a relatively short time span over a few years or faster. So these refrigerants are in the same concentration over Antarctica as over inhabitated land. However, the ozone depletion effect of the gases is dependent on a lot of factors. One of them are stratospheric clouds, which seem to be one reason for the hole above Antarctica.

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