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Turns out, that the hole in the ozone layer didn't get repaired. In fact, it's larger than it's ever been and above the Antarctic. Antarctica is currently experiencing a mass die-off of animals. We didn't do shit. This is pure climate change copium.
Is this true? An article from 2022 indicates things are getting better, just slowly
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to-the-worlds-ozone-hole
It's not. I'm guessing they did a Google search, looked at a few misleading article titles, and then decided they were a scientist.
On average, the hole has been shrinking, but 2023's hole was the 12th biggest on record. The eruption of Hunga-Tonga was thought to be the main factor.
The mass die-off reference likely refers to penguin chicks dying because climate change is causing sea ice to melt earlier than before. The poor little guys are falling into the ocean and drowning. It's not ozone layer related, though
Citation: Rectally Sourced Science.
Here you go: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/Ozone
We definitely did something. It just would have been a lot worse if we didn't. In fact so bad that BBC says the planet would have been "uninhabitable."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220321-what-happened-to-the-worlds-ozone-hole