Could our daily activities be seriously harming the atmosphere which serves as a protective blanket to the surface of Earth? In 1985, British scientists discovered a forty percent reduction in ozone above Antarctica. This ozone "hole" was due to the harmful use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) present in hair sprays, spray paints, foam packages and refrigerators. Once CFC reaches the Stratosphere, ultra violet radiation breaks CFC into Chlorine. Just one chlorine atom can wipe out 100,000 ozone molecules. These ozone molecules absorb ninety percent of ultraviolet radiation, preventing skin cancer, cataracts, and other deadly diseases. Diseases caused by radiation from the sun have noticeably increased.

Realizing something had to be done, in 1984 the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer set a framework for future actions. Two years later twenty-four countries signed the Montreal Protocol, an agreement on a gradual reduction of chemicals harming the ozone. The treaty was...