The ozone layer is on track to recover to its 1980 values around most of the world within a few decades
If current policies remain in place, the ozone layer is expected to recover to 1980 values by around 2066 over the Antarctic, by 2045 over the Arctic and by 2040 for the rest of the world. Variations in the size of the Antarctic ozone hole, particularly between 2019 and 2021, were driven largely by meteorological conditions. Nevertheless, the Antarctic ozone hole has been slowly improving in area and depth since the year 2000.
So we humans haven’t completely saved the ozone layer just yet, but we’ve stopped screwing it up enough that it will return to the state it was in when disco dancing was still around — and that’s no small feat. In fact, as environmental activists, scientists, and
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