Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "Why You Don’t Hear About the Hole in the Ozone Layer Anymore" video.

@Mandark020 If you look at the melanoma rates in Australia over the decades then they're not as alarming as you seem to be suggesting. Percentages mean nothing when you're talking about relatively low figures to begin with, but they certainly pack more of a punch. Although they rose steadily but not dramatically from ASMR 4.8 per 100,000 in 1982 to a peak of 6.2 in 2013 they have since fallen 'precipitously' to around 4.5 in 2019 in those intervening 6 years. If you look at the size of the ozone whole as measured by NASA it has remained pretty much constant since the early 1990s till today, despite the prevailing narrative. Increasing liberal attitudes since the war, sunscreen, public information have likely played a substantial role in changing people's attitudes and behaviours. Incidentally, 2019 seems to be the real outlier here in terms of shrinkage as today the hole is around 24x the size as first measured by NASA in 1979.
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The EU doesn't exactly have a great record either when it comes to measuring emissions I'm afraid.
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@oliverscorsim Regulation, particularly in modern consumer economies, isn't necessarily always about being consistent and doing the right thing all the time, it's as much about keeping people consuming. A lot of the time this means getting people to discard their old stuff and buy new. Environmental cost be damned, I'm afraid. Trouble is is that sometimes, for various reasons, people are reluctant to do that so easily and sensibilities and sensitivies vary from place to place. Seemingly having a benign motive and narrative can only help. Better still, a quasi-apocalyptic one where the need to consume meets the personal desires of the individual and the assuring feeling that one is doing so responsibly. More responsibily than those that aren't. Whether you use the regulation stick or the tax break carrot matters less than the outcome. The EU/German car industry scam was just one execrable example where a particularly powerful political and economic lobby ie the German car industry effectively managed to circumvent these strict emissions rules for years with dodgy software right under the noses of EU regulators. What, exactly, were they doing throughout this I wonder? Asleep at the wheel or the tailpipe perhaps? Whatever their likely self serving motivations, the German auto industries' deliberate intention to continually mislead consumers across the globe was only discovered by US regulators not EU ones and any subsequent fines and legal penalties handed out were paltry.
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