We did a reasonable job with ozone depletion, but that has much lower costs.
Yesterday there was an article here about ozone vs aluminum from the spacex sattelites reentry (which soon there will be plenty of)
Acid rain as well.
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…
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.