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[–] raptir@mander.xyz 248 points 1 week ago (77 children)

Kids these days don't even know about the hole in the ozone later.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We managed to dial things back a bit, so that became a smaller problem.

We used to see regular news reports of actual rivers on fire. Things are still way too bad, but we forcefully throttled some things as we saw how quickly the damage was compounding.

Women’s hair doesn’t defy gravity without lots of help.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Oh my god I needed your comment for it to finally click, I was thinking "they stopped putting their hair up to protect their shoulders from the increased UVs"? But of course, it was referencing the sprays!

And there was that whole thing about trying to make cars burn a little cleaner so you could actually see from 1 side of a major city to another

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