Stefan Glenn T. Saludez

7-Schintlmeister

The Reflection

The Overview

During the past months that we had been educated in the Environmental Science. In the past lessons, what hit me most is the lesson about our ozone layer. In that lesson, I have learned the eminence of the magnanimous ozone layer by fortifying our atmosphere from the chancy consequence of the Sun's radiation. I have also learned of how the ozone layer is currently rapidly being devastated by gases emitted by manufacturing and processing industries around the globe. I also have learned the major proportions who destroy the ozone layer.

The ozone

The Ozone Layer

 

The ozone layer is primarily formed by gases known as ozone. To be specific, it is the stratospheric fortification that is known as ozone layer. Ozone is formed by the chemistry of 3 oxygen molecules. The ozone is destroyed when it reacts with molecules containing nitrogen, hydrogen, chlorine, or bromine. Some of the molecules that destroy ozone occur naturally, but people have created others. The total mass of ozone in the atmosphere is about 3 billion metric tons. That may seem like a lot, but it is only 0.00006 percent of the atmosphere. The peak concentration of ozone occurs at an altitude of roughly 32 kilometers (20 miles) above the surface of the Earth. At that altitude, ozone concentration can be as high as 15 parts per million (0.0015 percent).

How ozone is destroyed

Process of Radiation

Process of Depletion

 

Ozone is destroyed when chlorofluorocarbons react with it. Specifically the chlorine, CFCs are industrially mass produced during the 1950s. Because of industrial production, the gas it emits to the atmosphere is also on a high scale. Because of this false move, the ozone layer thinned with such precision. Majority of the layer's substance had been depleted because of its rapid devastation by products that emit mass amount of chlorofluorocarbons.Products such as old refrigerators, hairsprays, air conditioning units, old syringes, and many more old products concerning chlorine.

Its major process: when chlorofluorocarbon reaches the air, chlorine separated and sticks to an oxygen molecule in ozone.It separates the molecule, taking it away, desolating it from the rest of the ozone. By that point, ozone has been destroyed, and many more are happening at the same moment.

How to protect ozone

Ozone Awareness Day is one example of educating people of Ozone Depletion

 

With the discovery of a large scale hole in the Antarctic during the late 80s, countless of sovereign states had begun to react on the present occurrence of the ozone's depletion. Ozone depletion happens in different places around the world. They are all gathered by an overpowering polar vortex and circulates them all above Antarctica, where there it will cause mass melting of ice.

As a result of this learnings,  I have reacted that a more supreme enforcement against the industrialization of chlorofluorocarbons must be enacted. If the body of nations cannot react on the widening problem of the Ozone depletion, then their own sovereignty is incapable of handling such situations. With enough power entrusted, the sovereignty can do something worth reasonable for the total elimination of chlorofluorocarbons from the atmosphere. Inventors must invent and patent several ideas that may be able to contribute to the elimination of CFCs not only in the troposphere, but also in the atmosphere. With this projects to be done accordingly, I can guarantee that Ozone in the Ozone layer can be restored.

Conclusion

Henceforth, with the data and reaction presented above, I can conclude that as journalists, we have to contribute in protecting and guiding the Ozone Layer to a completely bright future. We can contribute by inspiring the majority, who are customers of the media, by teaching them, voicing the environmentalists, making them react. A single journalist is more powerful than a platoon of Bazookas if he\she knows what or how to contribute to one single subject.

"I fear the power of journalism, than my fear of losing sovereign rule..."
-King George VI of Britain