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This is why you don’t hear about the hole in the ozone layer anymore — and here’s the lesson for us today
Story by Ben Stern • Friday

When’s the last time you heard about the ozone layer? Or about the hole in the ozone layer? For most people, it’s been years or even decades since the topic has crossed their minds.
 
And there’s a good reason for that — it’s because human cooperation and swift policy change were extremely effective in fixing the problem.
 
The ozone is an invisible layer of gas in our atmosphere that protects us from damaging, cancer-causing radiation given off by the sun, basically acting as the Earth’s sunscreen. Without it, life on Earth would be extremely vulnerable. So in the 1980s, when it was discovered that a hole was forming in the ozone layer, it was a big deal.

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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And there’s a good reason for that — it’s because human cooperation and swift policy change were extremely effective in fixing the problem.
 

Not just that but REASONABLE policy change, not some multibillion-dollar project like EVs being required to drive.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Thomas Jefferson