Remember the hole in the ozone layer? We slowed that. We can slow climate change, too.

ozone hole historical chart photo
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Ben Richmond at Motherboard highlights a climate change success story:




Richmond goes on to recall what happened when people learned there was a hole in the ozone layer:


Read the rest.

This is the sort of the group effort towards a global solution that is needed to slow climate change. It seems like so much has changed in the public since the early 90s, but hopefully we're not so different that we can't cooperate on this scale once again.

via Andrew Sullivan

NOTE: Initial headline had "We can *fix* climate change, too", which isn't an accurate way to describe the phenomenon. Slowing the change, is more accurate.

Tags: Air Pollution | Global Climate Change | Global Warming Causes | Global Warming Solutions | Ozone


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