The news that something is going better is a bit less "selling" than the news that something is going bad.

But this is hacker news, we're supposed to be elite, and so, reading news from MIT [1] : yes, the hole is still there, but it's smaller, because WE ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING.

Okay, the "something" was really "shift to cheaper stuff as we would have done anyway". But, still.

We can do stuff. And people choose to be on the side of doing stuff (or at least trying), the side of doing nothing, or the side of making the problem actually worse.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2025/study-healing-ozone-hole-global-re...