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."
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.
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.
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.
Right? Stupid science bitch making up things like "chlorofluorocarbons" and "global cooperation."
the science bitch that invented CFCs also invented Tetra Ethyl Lead fuel additive, "leaded gasoline" was also cleaned up,.. mainly.
He's also on the short list of people killed by their own invention.
Thought to be the single organism -not species, organism- with the most outsized effect on the Earth's atmosphere
Remember when everyone was so scared of polio and then all of the sudden we stopped talking about it?🤔
