Ozone Depletion Essay

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The Ozone layer is getting smaller and smaller. It’s constantly and slowly shrinking by 4% every decade or 10 years, and it stared a long time ago. This event is known as Ozone depletion, ozone depletion is the event of "the Ozone layer" (which is in Antarctica) starts to become damage and is caused by the chemical element stratospheric chorine. Stratospheric chorine is one of the many chemicals that can destroy the Ozone layer. There are many ways to stop it or control the amount that it melts. Also there many times that this issue pops up in the US and even around the world. (EPA, January 29, 2014)
The Ozone layer is like our shield that is 10 to about 30 miles above the earth. It protects the world from the sun’s harmful and crazy hot rays that can do serious damage to all living things. But it can also be bad of the ozone was too low to the earth’s surface it can pollute the air and kill or put people in critical condition. If it shrinks too much, which probably could happen, it would no longer keep us safe form the sun.
Many scientist are concerned for the ozone layer, and they are worried that is shrinking too much. They figured out most of it is caused by the chemicals that we humans create. In 1970 scientist saw how much is shrinking and found that chlorofluorocarbons or (CFCs) are hurting the ozone, the CFCs are like the hairsprays, deodorants, and coolers that worked in the refrigerators, and air conditioners are all hurting the ozone layer. Lucky the government banned the products that contained the chemicals that were harming the ozone and made the Clean Air Act. Unfortunately, what stinks is that the Ozone Layer will take about 55 to 60 years to fully heal. (Wikipedia, January 27 2014)
The Ozone is still getting ...

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...ng these products they can change everything in the ozone and you could be a person that helps prevent farther damage to the Ozone. (Society, January 27 2014)
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly or the UNGA came together and they decided that September 16th would be known as World Ozone Day in memory of the signing of the Montreal protocol that was in 1987. The prediction for the future with all the data and observing in the past 46 years of the ozone (if not taken care of) would be that the present of the damage would continue to grow, and possibly disappear, however if the ozone layer is cared for and treated with care and we replace the CFCs with “Ozone-friendly” chemicals and products then it would be likely that the ozone would being to heal again and it would strengthen the layer and prevent it from depletion.
(National geographic, January 27 2014)

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