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Huh, I thought the hole in the ozone was a success story for decisive environmental action and that it was "fixed"
Nothing is permanent. China started using untold amounts of cfls again and polar ice melts as well as human mining have released massive amounts of ozone destructive methane. There was good evidence of the damage slowing and reversing for a time, but we just kind of stopped caring around the time we had that massive global "climate change isn't real" psy-op.
It is actually getting better, it just takes time.
In fact, according to the above Wikipedia article it was in a great spot in 2019 and then a volcano erupted:
Well at least it doesn't seem worse?