Week 2 - ozone

My father read an interesting article explaining that although the ozone allows more ultra-violet light down to earth, the particles in the atmosphere, created by pollution, filter a large amount of this light, helping to keep the earth cool. The concern was that if we eliminate green house gasses, which are heating up the earth, too quickly, then the light and heat absorption from the particles will start to cool the earth. This means that in order to keep things balanced, we must eliminate green house gases at the same rate that we remove the particles from the atmosphere. 

In discussing the effects of our disappearing ozone, two different concerns surfaced. First, will this kill off humans? Second, will this injure the earth irrevocably? Humans will not live into infinity, whether we die-off in the next 5 years or 5 million years, we will die off. The earth can certainly survive without us, but the earth can not survive with out the atmosphere. The damage therefore,  to our atmosphere is much more detrimental to the earth than the changes caused, superficially by our carelessness.