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hinokiyesterday at 10:58 PM4 repliesview on HN

We did a reasonable job with ozone depletion, but that has much lower costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion


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littlexsparkeeyesterday at 11:15 PM

The cost of not addressing it is more distributed: at some point you can't go outside anymore since the UV index is so high, sunscreen can't block high-intensity UV-B and UV-C, plants get damaged to the point of catastrophic crop failures... you can live in denial about climate change in developed countries (for a limited time anyway) but ozone affects everyone.

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piskovyesterday at 11:03 PM

Yesterday there was an article here about ozone vs aluminum from the spacex sattelites reentry (which soon there will be plenty of)

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conceptionyesterday at 11:45 PM

Acid rain as well.

BobbyTables2today at 3:29 AM

Indeed. But still amazed we did anything about it, since it didn’t immediately affect population centers or cause economic impacts.

I just can’t see the same happening in today’s political climate…