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Re:The health benefits of better air by onion2k on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:39AM (#26967127)
We have more ozone holes now.

The global ban on CFCs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol) is working, and although there are still big holes that open and close every year we're on the way to getting back to pre-1980 levels of holes by 2060. https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/record-breaking-2020-oz...

Re:The health benefits of better air by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:56AM (#26967225)
Maybe, if China would curtail their CFC usage perhaps.

...A recently reported slowdown in the decline of the atmospheric concentration of CFC-11 after 2012, however, suggests that global emissions have increased...

We show that emissions from eastern mainland China are 7.0 ± 3.0 (±1 standard deviation) gigagrams per year higher in 2014–2017 than in 2008–2012, and that the increase in emissions arises primarily around the northeastern provinces of Shandong and Hebei. This increase accounts for a substantial fraction (at least 40 to 60 per cent) of the global rise in CFC-11 emissions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1193-4

Still, the Montreal Protocol is a good example of what can be achieved when we finally reach an imminent crisis.

Re:The health benefits of better air by Gravityloss on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:10AM (#26967680)
That's from 2019, they have since reduced the leaks, this from 2021: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03277-w
Re:The health benefits of better air by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:37AM (#26967830)
Great news, thanks for the update.