Yes, there definitely needs to be reduced carbon going into the atmosphere, and efforts on that front have been steady and improving. These ingenious new methods of removing carbon from our atmosphere just don't get much attention it seems. We need a way to clean up our atmosphere because just ending all carbon emissions won't solve the problem. I feel a duty to write about them, and hope the info on this angle gets out there to spur awareness and more support for further testing and development.

The ozone hole would probably have been closed by now, if China hadn't been dumping the CFCs for the past several years in secret, and in defiance of the worldwide ban. I doubt if they've even stopped now that they've been outed as the country that's been the origin of illegal releases (and they may still be releasing, for all we know). I haven't seen any news of China saying, "Oh gee, our bad. We'll take care of that and put an end to it right now!" I've only seen the recent reports that China was the guilty country.

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