[HN Gopher] The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may al...
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       The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may also have fended
       off warming
        
       Author : r0n0j0y
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-08-19 08:08 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | sonicggg wrote:
       | Sounds exactly like a serial killer saying they saved someone's
       | life by practicing self control.
        
       | munk-a wrote:
       | This article is an interesting retrospective on some really good
       | environmental moves the world has undertaken and may serve to
       | help wash away doubt folks have about the ability for global
       | cooperation to actually materialize buuuut... Gosh that title is
       | just itching to be abused by apologists, we've managed to not end
       | mankind in a whole bunch of ways during the past century - some
       | people were quite convinced that a nuclear apocalypse was going
       | to be the inevitable conclusion to the cold war.
        
       | anyfoo wrote:
       | Good, so we have shown that we _can_ make a difference. That
       | means the defeatist argument ( "we can't, so what's the point")
       | does not hold, and we can proceed to actually do something.
       | Patting ourselves on the shoulder that something has been done in
       | the past will not help.
        
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