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Yeah this is basically my take. Also the fact that doomsday predictions are always extremely common and 99% of them don’t pan out!
Remember the Population Bomb? All sorts of other doom predictions?
And ironically the panic over things often caused other problems.
Remember global cooling? When I was a kid there were some vague concerns that the Earth could enter a global cool period. It could be the weather of 1816 forever.
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And the ozone hole in 1991 that was going to give everyone in the Northern Hemisphere melanoma. Lots of scary articles, but when the hole disappeared, nobody thought that even worthy of mention.
Well that is because it hasn't yet. We'll get back to 1980's levels in about 15-20 years still.
"It confirms that 99% of ozone-depleting gases have been phased out. Projections from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggest the Antarctic ozone layer will recover to 1980 levels by around 2066, with recovery in the rest of the world between 2040 and 2045"
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"A hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth's southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project the ozone layer could fully recover by 2066"
It's just slow steady progress at the layer being restored a little every year is not really news beyond niche publications.
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The ozone hole is different in that the problem was real, and serious, but we fixed it. Acid rain and lead pollution are other examples of that type.
Most doomer predictions are based on problems which are either fake (like natural resource depletion) or grossly overexaggerated (like climate change).
The media doesn't report good news (and social media is not much better) so you don't get to hear the information that would allow you to distinguish between a fake problem and a fixed problem. (And occasionally a problem is both fake and fixed, like the Y2K bug).
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