As bad as the environment seems with climate change and other pollution, scientists say humanity has also done a pretty good job of cleaning up some past messes.
Fixing ozone depletion was by far the top choice of scientists, officials and environmental policy experts.
“It’s the first time we created a planet-killing problem and then we turned around and solved it,” Stanford’s Jackson said. As we approach Earth Day, NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway asked three experts to imagine what a carbon neutral future would look like, and how the U.S. would get there. Changes would have to come to the auto industry and home heating, among other things - but we'll also have to figure out who will pay for the shifts in our energy use.
Tight restrictions on tiny particles alone decreased annual U.S. air pollution deaths “from about 95,000 in 1990 to 48,000 in 2019,” West said. Many young people are "eco anxious," worried about how climate change will shape their futures, said author and former environmental lawyer Heather White. Everyone has a role to play in securing a better climate future for their kids, and White's book is aimed at helping parents find theirs, she says on LX News.
Experts credit renewable power subsidies to pull the world out of the 2008 Great Recession, especially in Germany and the United States. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has taken 96 species off the endangered species list, 65 of them because they have recovered.
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