Ozone and CFCs
by Steve Withers
To: Ordinary Person by D The world agreed to stop using CFCs almost 20 years ago and the ozone hole has been slowly repairing itself ever since. This is an example of human-driven atmospheric change - both in terms of the cause of the destruction of the ozone hole AND in terms of the solution: effective global cooperation. I can understand the dilemma about your land. The oceans may not rise enough to inundate that land in King Tide for several decades. The rate the ice at the poles is melting, it may not be too many decades......but we will likley both be dead by then. It's your kids and their kids who will be swept away. hard to get your head around....and painful for the pocket today.....but that is what it appears to be headed for. There is little evidence to the contrary. Every day now there are new developments on the rapidly accelerating rate of change as the world continues to diddle around doing little or nothing. That inaction is what is hurting your land.....Denial won't help.
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by Steve Withers
To: Ordinary Person by D The world agreed to stop using CFCs almost 20 years ago and the ozone hole has been slowly repairing itself ever since. This is an example of human-driven atmospheric change - both in terms of the cause of the destruction of the ozone hole AND in terms of the solution: effective global cooperation. I can understand the dilemma about your land. The oceans may not rise enough to inundate that land in King Tide for several decades. The rate the ice at the poles is melting, it may not be too many decades......but we will likley both be dead by then. It's your kids and their kids who will be swept away. hard to get your head around....and painful for the pocket today.....but that is what it appears to be headed for. There is little evidence to the contrary. Every day now there are new developments on the rapidly accelerating rate of change as the world continues to diddle around doing little or nothing. That inaction is what is hurting your land.....Denial won't help.
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