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What is cheering is that when it comes to the ozone layer, it’s taken us less than three decades to move from regulatory action to seeing positive results on a complex, global issue. This should remind us that swift action can still prevent catastrophic, uncontrollable warming. But decisions and action to radically reduce emissions need to happen in the next two years – about the time it took from discovering the hole in the ozone layer to agreeing the Montreal Protocol. As Pugh’s poem went on to say, “sometimes we do as we meant to”. The ozone layer is recovering – there’s hope for the environment yet |
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