It's so easy to just, you know, you watch the news or doom scroll, you know,
on social media and the algorithm keeps feeding you all the worst things and it's so easy to feel alone and hopeless.
As a kid, when I learned about the hole in the ozone layer, I mean, what a moment.
It felt like, oh, suddenly we're in some disaster film and like, what's going to happen?
Is this the end?
Recently, scientists discovered a weak spot in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
It felt like there's this awful thing that's happened in the sky that I can't see.
And if it doesn't get fixed, then this is going to physically hurt us.
It's going to force us to change how we live.
You know, we won't be able to go outside anymore.
It'll be too dangerous.
That event hijacked my nervous system.
It just felt too big.
It felt too big for me to, I think, like, understand mentally.
So instead, my body carried that fear.
Now, when I look back, I realize it was anxiety.
And fast forward years later, I remember seeing somewhere, oh, hey, we did it.
And just feeling like, oh, wow, as a species, we're actually capable of this.
Human action to save the ozone layer appears to have worked.
The study says it should fully recover within decades.