United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The ozone layer, which protects us from ultraviolet light, looks to be successfully healing after gaping holes were discovered in the 1980s. The Northern Hemisphere could be fully fixed by the 2030s and Antarctica by the 2060s. A new United Nations report says it's an example of what global agreements can achieve. The ozone layer had been damaged by man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). The chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) effectively began eating away at the ozone. CFCs were found in things like spray cans, fridges, foam insulation and air conditioners. As a result, in 1985 a gaping hole in the ozone over the South Pole was discovered. An international agreement called the Montreal Protocol made sure that businesses came up with replacements for these damaging products. 180 countries signed up to it. In signing the protocol, those countries agreed to phase out chemicals like CFCs.

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Re:If Trump did his thing

[AmiMoJo]

At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

What an extraordinary claim. Let's see if it's true, starting with your own link because I've found that skeptics who posts links often debunk themselves. They quote her as saying:

"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history."

And then go on to claim that because they think capitalism is the only successful development model she must mean to destroy it. In their world "transform" means "destroy" apparently. If you read a bit more of what she actually said it's actually very clear that she is talking about something else entirely:

"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."

The economic model of "industrialize as fast as possible, literally burn up all your resources and emit massive amounts of CO2". The world is already making this transition towards cleaner technologies. Capitalism is actually driving it, as flaws in the market that allowed costs to be externalized are fixed.

Quick round-up of your other quotes:

"Clinton-Gore administration"
"green-progressive-liberal writer for Salon"
"National Audubon Society"
"a founder of the Sierra Club"
"Mikhail Gorbachev, communist and former leader of U.S.S.R."
"a climate justice campaigner coordinator"
"atmospheric scientist"
"Researcher"

Ah, all powerful and influential people that definitely have the power to destroy capitalism. Citing Gorbachev as evidence of environmentalism being a "Leftist" conspiracy looks particularly desperate.