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It's one of the biggest ozone holes on record — but not necessarily cause for alarm. right nothing to look at here just carry on
by megamike 3y ago
It's one of the biggest ozone holes on record — but not necessarily cause for alarm.
right nothing to look at here just carry on
- 6DM 3y agoLower in the article explains why: > Yet despite experiencing large seasonal growth this year, the ozone hole is still decreasing in size overall. "Based on the Montreal Protocol and the decrease of anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances, scientists currently predict that the global ozone layer will reach its normal state again by around 2050," said Claus Zehner, ESA's mission manager for Copernicus Sentinel-5P.
- doublerabbit 3y agoSo if we can survive the next thirty years, we're good. I can barely look forward to the next five. Edit: Woah. Humor doesn't translate well on this site doesn't it? I'm not saying the world is ending. I'm just saying with the next five years it looks bloody bleak, at least for me, turning 40 doesn't look fun. With wars, environmental mess going on; the world looks very dystopian to the vision where it could be utopian in thirty years. The good always triumphs, you just have to fight past the evil first and that could happen.
- Alupis 3y agoThis sort of ridiculous, silly rhetoric needs to end. It's not just unproductive, it's counter-productive. "ThE wOrLd Is EnDiNg!" is such a tired line, used by religious fanatics since the beginning of time. Modern-day climate activism has indeed become it's own sort of religion, complete with the same sort of doom-and-gloom "repent now before it's too late" rhetoric and increasingly not based on facts or science but instead emotional ploys, fearmongering, and faith based arguments. No.. the world isn't ending tomorrow, within 5 years, or even in the next few decades. Yes, we should do better to protect the environment. We just don't need the sensationalism - it turns people off and away from all the silliness.
- wrs 3y agoThe world won’t end for billions of years. In the next few decades, a whole bunch of humans will be financially devastated, physically relocated, and made dangerously jealous, defensive, and angry by climate change. Spin it how you like.
- maybelsyrup 3y ago> We just don't need the sensationalism - it turns people off and away from all the silliness. By contrast, this is the exact sort of haughty condescension that pushes people further away, often right into the hands of real extremists. The sensationalism is there because the problems of our ecology are literally sensational. Dismissing that is the real turnoff here.
- Alupis 3y ago> literally sensational The zealots pushing the sensationalism often don't comprehend the forces at play - both natural and human-made. It's just religious fervor regurgitated because they passed some sort of faith purity test and were rewarded by other zealots with internet points. There's conflicting motives here - one that says the California coastline should always remain exactly how we enjoy it today, and one that says all of California used to be ocean floor. Any affirmative action we take to "preserve" the environment how we like it is in itself destructive to natural forces. With that said, any human-made actions that accelerate natural forces or create un-natural forces should indeed be minimalized or removed. The problem is the time scale. Zealots like to scare everyone into believing the world ends tomorrow - just like actual religious zealots tend to do to encourage conversion. If they can scare you enough to join them, they they see that as a win. The world is getting greener by the day - but these things take time. We're just not ready to have a 100% renewable system yet, but one day we will be there. The incentives to get there cannot be allowed to be fear - it must be logic. A greener future has to be the logical move.
- developer93 3y agoI'm also turning 40, but I'd much rather be like that than a young person right now..
- yieldcrv 3y agosounds like we need another term than “normal” state if an ozone layer with a hole is my entire life
- kulahan 3y agoYour life is a hell of a lot shorter than the life of the ozone layer, so it's kinda weird to constrain it to that timeframe
- spacecadet 3y agoYeah but people do this. Consider for a moment that most environmentalism is really just self-preservation... consider the experience of the "earth" over its lifetime, compared to humanities... Feel the need to *just a thought, Im not some anti-climate change nut job...
- S201 3y agoSo in other words, more clickbait doomer-ism titles. It's disappointing to see this type of junk "journalism" be submitted to, and upvoted on, HN.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoi wonder: would clickbait style articles be submitted if there were no karma points?
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- EdwardDiego 3y agoIf you don't live in the Southern Hemisphere, you'll be fine. And if you do, I recommend Neutrogena SPF 50+ sports spray.