will the ozone ever heal fully?

Question

how can further damage be provented?

Answer 1

with the reduced rate in emmissions there is evidence that in some places the ozone is regenerating. It is uncertain weather the ozone will ever regenerate fully.

Answer 2

The Ozone layer is already beginning to heal, which is good news, and over time it looks as if it should go back to normal. The key to preventing more damage is to keep tight controls on emmisions of chemicals that destroy the ozone layer, such as CFC's, which used to be found in Aerosols and Fridges.
These days CFC's are banned in aerosols, and when fridges are disposed then they are meant to be taken to a special place where trained workers can remove all the CFC's safely. However, this costs money and some people either can't afford it or just don't want to pay so dump their fridges regardless.

Answer 3

Yes. At the current rate of recovery the ozone layer is expected to be "healed" somewhere between 2055 and 2075. Ozone is naturally created all the time in the earth's atmosphere and will reach an equilibrium if we stop pumping out CFC's (which were banned by international treaty in the eighties)

Answer 4

Hmm. Tough question. One reason it's tough is that nature doesn't have a "default" setting to return to. There is no "right" ozone layer thickness, any more than there's a right amount of nitrogen or oxygen in the atmosphere. These things are always changing, regardless of our industrial input.

No, I'm not saying that we haven't made things worse, just that the whole concept of "fixing" the environment assumes that there's some right condition for it, and there isn't one. Before one-celled organisms came along, we had virtually no oxygen in the atmosphere -- if you took a time machine back to the time before life began, you'd end up breathing methane and die. We have a breathable atmosphere today because one-celled animals "polluted" the atmosphere with oxygen. Global temperatures fluctuated wildly before humans came along, and have stabilized somewhat since then, giving us some illusion of normalcy. But we haven't been around for very long.

Change is natural; a default setting that we can maintain is not.

Answer 5

I've rarely seen a post with so much subjectivity and so many subjectively based errors. Wow. To me women are not at all attractive, and I mean at all. Males are attractive. Both I as a gay man and women I know find the same things attractive about males, and masculine personality is NOT part of that. In fact, the more masculine the personality the more negatives that tend to attach to the man. Homosexuality is a sin according to YOUR PARTICULAR FLAVOR of religion. Sin is a relative term that has no meaning whatsoever if the faith community to which one belongs doesn't embrace the idea. For example, my faith doesn't think there is anything whatsoever wrong with being gay. Neither do many others -- at a quick search of memory, those groups that see nothing wrong with being gay includes the Unitarians, the Spiritualists, some Christians such as the United Church of Christ and the Church of the Brethren, the Unity School of Christianity - and of course Reform Judaism, most Buddhists, and then strong majorities of other faith communities (for example the Episcopal church in the US), all of organized Wicca, and on and on. So, no homosexuality is NOT a sin, sin is not an absolute, as much as you desperately want it to be so that you don't need to think. Its just something that some religions don't like. You feel whatever you want, you are full of sh*t with some of it, but its your right to think what you want. Trust me, I am not looking for any qualities out of my partner of nearly 20 years other than love. You are quoting failed 50 year old psychotherapy that has been disproved repeatedly (the nature of science is that, unlike religion, it can learn and change in accordance to research and/or facts). There is certainly nothing unnatural about homosexuality -- it exists throughout nature in fact. See Dr. Bruce Bagemihl; Biological Exuberance; St. Martin's Press for the basis of a foundational study of that fact. Then get your head out of whatever religious cult you are in, you will feel much better. Kind thoughts, Hermes

Answer 6

The ozone layer is in depletion all the time that chlorfluorocarbons and other pollutants are being released. The less we use those products, the better chance that the ozone that's left will replenish itself. We all have to make that effort to use less aerosol products, use air travel less, use carbon based fuel less and recycle more.
Then, just maybe, we will have cleaner air to breathe. In the meantime, check this out (see below)

Answer 7

the ozone will never fully heal back up but there are sooo many ways to prevent any further damage just most of the people that can put them out there are too much of ***** to do it

Answer 8

Eventually yes. Eventually we will run out things to damage it with and it will slowly recover. Will it recover in our lifetime or even the lifetime of the human race is another question. You also have to remember that the harmfull gases don't just go straight through our atmosphere when we create them, OH no they will stay emitting slowly out of the ground and other materials that absorbed them. This will severely hinder the ozone's recovery in later years

Answer 9

It's too bad we can't pump the ozone in big cities into the upper atmosphere, kill 2 birds 1 stone. As long as humans pump more waste into the environment than it can process, air and water qualities will deteriorate, poisoning all modern lifeforms.

Answer 10

The ozon layer is healing itself right now.
The scientists that originaly discover the hole 20 od years ago, recently said it was getting smaller due to us putting less cfc's into the air, now all we have to deal with is global warming.
Common get those compost heaps going *:) lets stop driving all those petrol guzzlers and chopping rain forrests down, lets do it baby *;)