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hdgvhicvyesterday at 5:31 PM1 replyview on HN

Ozone action occurred before the rise of social media.

We were fortunate. 20 years later and we’d have been screwed


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taffydavidyesterday at 11:32 PM

I think it was more that the change required was relatively simple, and the industry was sort of already phasing out CFCs anyway. Banning them in fridges and aerosols was mostly frictionless and a win for everyone.

Turning the entire planet carbon neutral is so much harder a problem.

Also the fossil fuel industries have been trying to bury research on global warming since long before social media existed