This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi and this one's for you. All you children of the

80s, you are my people. All that big hair, spandex, those scrunchies, some absolutely

epic music. And unfortunately, this.

I'm not going to micro-resonate with some bad news about the ozone. This medical news

update is brought to you by Edville, Advanced Medicine for Pain. The ozone layer sheds the

earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays. But a recent report concluded that this layer is

thinning rapidly. You would trace gases. Primarily, CFCs in consumer products.

You probably remember that. I do. The sudden realization that the ozone layer was in danger.

Something most of us had never even heard of prior to 1985. Skin cancer rates were going

to skyrocket. Crops could fail. Ecosystems could collapse. It was an existential threat.

One so urgent that I was one of those 10-year-olds who refused to crush a piece of styrofoam

for fear of releasing more CFCs into the air. The story, though, starts even further back,

with two scientists, Sherwood Roland and Mario Molina at the University of California Irvine.

This started back in 1972 and 1973 with curiosity on the part of a laboratory chemist, namely me,

about what would happen to the co-flurocarbon gases which had just been discovered as being

present in the atmosphere, essentially everywhere. And so when Dr. Mario Molina joined by research group

in 1973, we decided to ask a question about some chemicals that were just being released to

the environment and we realized that they could pose a serious global environmental problem.

Chloroflorocarbons or CFCs first developed in the 1920s and by mid-century used almost

everywhere around the earth in aerosol sprays as blowing agents for foams and packing materials

as solvents and refrigerants. Molina and Roland discovered these chemicals could reach the

upper atmosphere and destroy the ozone layer which provides vital protection from excess ultraviolet

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