While all of us are very concerned about the socio-economic development of our country and the outside world, few of us are really concerned about another matter which is actually and insidiously having an even bigger impact on all lives in this planet. Unlike natural disasters like earthquakes and Tsunami where the extent of damage can be roughly quantified, this threat that I am referring has undoubtedly killed many of us and is going to kill even more if we still continue our lifestyle as we do now.

What I am talking about is the ozone hole. It is primarily caused by human-produced compounds that release chlorine and bromine gases in the stratosphere.
The latest report from NASA released on the 19th October shows that this year’s ozone hole  in the polar region has broken records for area and depth.            

                                ozone hole over Antartica

The ozone layer acts to protect life on Earth by blocking harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun. Increase in UV rays will lead to increase incidence of cancers, especially skin cancer, decrease in crops yield, weather change, global warming. The damage to human kind is insidious but enormous, and cannot be quantify.

 To protect our planet and ourselves, all of us have a duty to decrese usage of CFC. Try not use to those sprays that still use CFC as a propellant. There is now a lot of environmentaly friendly substitutes for CFC. So if we as consumers do not buy spray cans with CFC, the manufacturers will have no choice but to source an alternative. In that way, we can contribute to preservation of our ozone layer and indirectly we are helping ourselves and our future generations.

Those who wish to read more on this, please go to the NASA report.