The Mail, January 11, Matt Ridley
Good news, everybody. The ozone layer is probably going to heal. And that’s not all: by the time my (future) grandchildren grow up in the late 2050s, the world could be greener, healthier, cleaner, kinder, more peaceful and more equal — if we allow it.
Why do I think this, when doom-and-gloom activists are always telling us to panic about climate change and some young people are so pessimistic they are refusing to have children?
Because that’s what the data clearly shows. Many of the indicators of planetary and human health are going in the right direction.
The new United Nations report on the ozone layer is indeed good news, though not in the way most of the Press has reported it. It’s a bit misleading to say, as the UN does, that the ozone hole over Antarctica — which re-forms each year — is ‘slowly improving’. After all, the hole in 2021 was one of the biggest ever recorded.
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