The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore” TURNS OUT we fixed it???
WE WHAT
Yes! I was thinking about this too.
Yeah the EPA used to be willing and able to do stuff and conservatives hadnt decided that the environment was antithetical to americanism
Amazing how the atmosphere stops making sulfuric acid when you stop spewing sulfates into it!
Not everywhere www.researchgate.net/publication/...
PDF | MacLeod and Fish have recently suggested that there is no adverse impact on the engraved rock art of Murujuga (the Burrup Peninsula) from... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...
It turned out acid rain, ozone layer depletion, leaded gas and lead paint were all readily preventable ecological and health problems with solutions that didn't cost that much in the long run. (And that were fought by vested interests every step of the way.)
The hole in the Ozone Layer? We fixed that!
@ellenkushner.bsky.social We fixed the hole in the ozone too!
Ditto the ozone layer.
There's a great episode of the podcast You're Wrong About that's about acid rain that goes through the events pretty thoroughly.