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Same thing with acid rain. Remember acid rain? When was the last time you heard someone fear mongering about acid rain? Doesn't really happen anymore, because we passed policies reducing the sulfur content in highway and maritime fuels. Less sulfur being emitted into the atmosphere means less sulfuric acid is formed in clouds meaning the rain is less acidic. We did it.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I thought someone shot Matt Walsh in the neck? Oh wait it was the other guy identical to him in every aspect that matters

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It was a Goyper that did it though.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 2 hours ago

Nick Fuentes needs to be thrown head first into a prison cell and left to rot.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, since it did not work as well. It was proto good. A hipster of a convention that needed a follow up by a real Canadian one, with teeth and brawn and chiseled good looks.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 2 hours ago

And a bulge between the legs.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We need to bring back bullying, but just for people like Matt Walsh

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 points 2 hours ago

Matt Walsh could very well be a self-hating dyslexic individual who thought his condition was a personal failing and is taking out his hate on everyone.

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ever seen all the news about renewable power growing exponentially? No? It's because good news is boring and noone has agenda to propagate it.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Actually this is reported on often here in Australia, where renewables (mainly solar) are making drastic changes to our power grid and energy system.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 13 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Man different times. Imagine if this happened now.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago

There'd be lots more 80s hair to battle the woke ideal.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Countries passing regulation for a common good? Sounds too woke for me!

[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Even dr evil knows the ozone layer and he's a moron.

[–] QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Ozone Layer keeps it warm in the summer, cool in the winter, and it keeps out the sheep.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

Then how do we sleep?

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 24 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That's the problem when you live in an information bubble. I clearly remember reports about the ozon layer starting regenerating.

Why do idiots and ignorants still have that much influence? That's the real mystery!

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[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 20 hours ago

Yeah?

But what about Y2K? All those programmers and companies stressed over it and nothing happened! /s

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Jomega@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A guy who outright calls himself a "theocratic fascist", makes documentaries so blatantly manipulative that they look like something out of a parody, is quoted as saying he violates his children's consent all the time, and is weirdly obsessed with what age women are most fertile. He also works for Charlie Kirk's company because of course he does.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

oh yeah I think I heard of him.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

"verification" mark = asshole and/or nazi

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Rightwing media personality/"journalist".

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Do it will climate change - now.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

We tried. Then fascists bought by oil showed up.

[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 13 hours ago

Too much money in oil and coal etc.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 13 points 18 hours ago

Funny story too. They had a bounty system, you got paid for bringing in the cfc's to get rid of them. So manufacturers started quiet;y making it just to trade it in.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 47 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (8 children)

Matt Walsh is an unserious goon at best, an actual moron at worst.

But the reason that this sort of anti-science propaganda might actually work on well- intended people is because we don't advertise our major successes anymore. Or rather, we never really did advertise them enough, but as those successes became less visible compared to, say, a polio vaccine, just as it took scientists to inform us of the problem, they need to inform us of wins too.

When I was a kid in the 90s, we had a lot of alarm bells going off about the Ozone Layer, about acid rains, and climate change (termed "global warming" then). None of these were particularly visible problems to most people. Each of these became massively politicized, but the fix for the first 2 was a relatively narrow remedy: find and implement replacements for hydroflourocarbons through environmental regulations, and cut mainly two compounds, sulfer dioxide and nitrogen oxides, from fossil fuel power plant emissions through cap and trade regulation policies and smokestack scrubbers. And it worked quite well, to the point that the ozone layer is repairing, as are ecosystems previously ravaged by acid rains.

But scientists and the media never advertised that success nearly enough. Honestly we should have been politicizing that success, even, as much as we did the problems. Now it just seems to most like the problem quietly got forgotten like it never really mattered, rather than that it was a massive problem and we fucking fixed it through science, regulation and international cooperation. And that apparent disappearance of the problem without any noticeable change for the average Joe, and the resulting skepticism that it was ever a problem at all, has infected the one ongoing problem, the biggest and most complex of the problems, climate change.

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[–] hayvan@piefed.world 198 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Also also corporations fought the science for about a decade until safer alternatives were developed.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

And don’t forget that Tetraethyl Lead was only used as an anti-knock agent because the GM wasn’t able to patent and monetise Benzene.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 152 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Proof that corporations will fuck over the entire planet and its entire population and all the animals and plant life just to make mOnEy during their lifetime. Selfish as FUCK.

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 27 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (12 children)

I had to learn about this stuff to get my refrigerant certification. If you want to claim that CFCs aren’t that big of a deal then you are a fucking dumbass.

1 atom of chlorine can destroy 100,000 atoms of ozone. For every 1 part of chlorine that enters the atmosphere 100,000 times that amount of ozone is destroyed. Not only that, it also absorbs and traps infrared and other types of radiation heat and stops it from escaping the atmosphere. That is just one of the elements in CFCs and they all do severe levels of damage, they aren’t very stable so they break down easy and ever atom of its compound gets to interact to it’s full effect. Shit’s really bad.

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[–] Overspark@piefed.social 120 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Also the hole is still there, but it's slowly healing now instead of getting worse.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Matt Walsh is a walking trashcan lid flapping in the wind.

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