You want the good news, or the bad news? By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Which will it be? How do you want to spin it? Can you even tell the difference? Let us ponder...

Good news! No more hole in the sky. Thanks to the removal of numerous harmful chemicals from your planetary airspace by way of dramatic changes in international law -- namely 1987's shockingly successful Montreal Protocol -- the ozone layer is no longer being destroyed, and much of it is actually on track to repair itself and return to mid-1980 levels by mid-century.

Read: One of the largest and most daunting environmental issues of the age has been (largely) solved by international cooperation, public awareness, scientific and government pressure, and the undeniable fact that angry bearded Christian God still loves our species best of all despite, you know, everything. Upshot: It worked. We did it. We are perhaps not so evil after all. ...

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(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/10/06/notes100610.DTL&nl=fix)

[ThomWV]

1. I prefer to "ponder" as I gladly Kick and Recommend this post

Because this is an important thing, this is a sign-post, this tells us there is hope.

[Scuba]

2. People cooperating? How quaint.

[DirkGently]

3. I always thought that was a good example for the "Science is hysteria" global warming deniers.

[progressoid]

4. I bet there are some out there that deny that there ever was an Ozone hole

or if there was, that it was even a problem. :banghead:


Guess, I'm just in a glass half empty mood today.

[DirkGently]

5. Guess I won't bring up the people who say banning DDT "killed more people than Hitler."

e.g., Michael Crichton -- State of Fear

:)

[progressoid]

6. Glad I never read that book

My blood pressure is already too high.

[DirkGently]

7. Another Crichton quote from that book that stuck with me: "Old-growth forests suck."