This isn't an insolvable problem, but the carbon-based energy sector will be big losers, and they're fighting tooth and nail against it.
An awful lot of our politics and geopolitics right now is symptomatic of the carbon energy sector fighting against the reality that it needs to die for the good of the human race, but it is also extraordinarily powerful.
All far less expensive to fix. Never actually heard of rivers catching fire?
Has acid rain been solved globally?
The ozone hole problem we got lucky on. It required global action but a lot of things lined up. Things like the British prime minster at the time being a former research chemist and therefore understanding the issue, and being successful at influencing both the US President at the time and European countries.
This is the most famous example, though there have been a few of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River
> Has acid rain been solved globally?
Not entirely, but largely.
I think I may have heard of it as a freak event (e.g. an oil spill) but the same the same river catching fire 14 times is not something i realised happened.
It used to be that almost every river was unsafe to swim in.
It’s possible to fix environmental problems. It just requires the will.