Climate change: The environmental disasters we’ve almost fixed
From acid rain to the ozone hole: Can we learn from the environmental “success stories” of the past? …
However, Canadian scientist John Smol, a young researcher back in the 1980s, says in many ways acid rain was a “success story”, showing that countries can come together and deal with an international problem. “If you don’t price pollution, people will pollute. We learned that for sure,” he says.