Hole in ozone layer improving but lesson not learned on climate change: environmental lawyer

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More than 30 years of united action to address a worrying hole in the ozone layer has made a difference, but the world hasn’t learned a lesson when it comes to climate change, says a prominent environmental lawyer.

Dianne Saxe, who served as environmental commissioner of Ontario from 2015 to 2019, says a hole over Antarctica the size of North America that was discovered in 1985 has improved because the world listened to science.

Canada led the way with the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which became the first United Nations treaty to receive universal ratification. It phased out the use of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, a type of chemical invented in the 1920s that was widely used in refrigerants, solvents and aerosol sprays, but caused serious breakdowns in the upper ozone layer of the atmosphere.

“We reduce climate damage and we also dramatically reduce air pollution, which is an enormous human health threat and also reduces agricultural productivity.”

 

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Blame China. Worst polluters in the world. The only way to slow down the pollution from China is to close their manufactures and move their jobs back to USA!

This is a Load of S**T 💩

It’s never enough is it?

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