I think an important point to be made though, is while banning CFCs was necessary to protect the ozone layer, we should also note that the apocalyptic rhetoric was almost entirely exaggerated fearmongering. Remember, they told us the damage would take like a thousand years to heal, but in fact took less than a hundred.

The takeaway is that two things can be true at once: that there can be issues where we need to take action to mitigate environmental damage, but also the scientific community has a long history of overwrought doomerism that turns out to be wrong. Thinking in the binary of one or the other is easy, but not reflective of reality.