Notice how they stopped talking about ozone holes 20 years ago...
Of course; this whole thing is a sham that is a byproduct of “globalization” - as manufacturing heads to Asia, a few billion Asians are going to want cars, their own homes, families - so to head that off, we’ll take those things away in the West.
For years young Americans have been moving into cities; over the past few years as they’ve seen who really runs them, I’m sure that trend is finished.
I seem to recall reading something within the last couple of weeks about it being back.