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Similar with Y2K — it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, “yeah lol it was a dud.”

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I can’t remember the name but I think this is some kind of paradox.

Like the preventative measures we’re so effective that they created a perception that there was no risk in the first place.

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I wasn’t working in the IT field back then, as I was only 16, but as I knew that it’d most likely be my field one day (yup, I was right), I followed this closely due to interest, and applied patches accordingly.

Everything kept working fine except this one modem I had.

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There were goddamn Nickelodeon phone-a-thons where you pledged to not use cfc products. This shit was serious.

Edit: I just remembered ,they talked about how bad the sun was for kids in Australia, or something.

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Like he even read the response

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Right? Stupid science bitch making up things like “chlorofluorocarbons” and “global cooperation.”

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the science bitch that invented CFCs also invented Tetra Ethyl Lead fuel additive, “leaded gasoline” was also cleaned up,… mainly.

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He’s also on the short list of people killed by their own invention.

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Thought to be the single organism -not species, organism- with the most outsized effect on the Earth’s atmosphere

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Of course it’s Matt Walsh

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