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Tackling ozone depletion is a lot easier: we stop using some chemicals. Not a big deal. Tacking climate change is asking everyone to stop using energy (as we k
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Tackling ozone depletion is a lot easier: we stop using some chemicals. Not a big deal.
Tacking climate change is asking everyone to stop using energy (as we know it) which is fundamentally existential.
They're not in the same category of proportional impact.
- jandrese 8y agoIt's not quite that severe, but as you note the substitutes are a lot more painful than they were with CFCs. Plus the problem is much much larger. We aren't getting out of this with just a little sunburn.