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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by sonnyblarney on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @07:49PM (#18396280)
Tackling ozone depletion is a lot easier: we stop using some chemicals. Not a big deal.

Tacking climate change is asking everyone to stop using energy (as we know it) which is fundamentally existential.

They're not in the same category of proportional impact.

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Re:Ozone: The Earth's protective shield is repairing by jandrese on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @09:22PM (#18396694)
It's not quite that severe, but as you note the substitutes are a lot more painful than they were with CFCs. Plus the problem is much much larger. We aren't getting out of this with just a little sunburn.
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