Ozone Day: Less Hot Air, More Cool Moves.

Let’s be honest, most “days” on the calendar fly past us without notice. Chocolate Day, Hug Day, Left-Handers Day etc. etc. Blink, and you’ve missed them. But Ozone Day? September 16. This one comes with a subtle warning label: “Handle with care, your future depends on it.”

Yet the irony is that every year on Ozone Day, we gather in air-conditioned halls, clicking PowerPoint slides, and discussing how to “lower the temperature.” Which, if you think about it, is exactly what the planet has been begging us to do. Forget international conferences; Mother Earth has been dropping unsubtle hints for decades. Floods, heatwaves, hurricanes. Like a frustrated friend sending you ALL CAPS WhatsApp messages.

The problem is that we humans treat the ozone layer like Wi-Fi: invisible, taken for granted, and only missed when it’s gone. Imagine stepping outside without it. Instant human barbecue ( well done only). Sunscreen would have to come in industrial drums, SPF 10,000.

And here’s the fun part: whenever “global warming” comes up, people react as if lowering the thermostat at home is their contribution to saving the planet. Someone says, “The Earth is heating up,” and another replies, “Oh, I just bought a new 2-ton AC.” Bravo, you’re cooling your room while roasting the globe.

Ozone Day should really be called “The Day We Pretend We’re Serious.” Schools plant one sad sapling that dies in a week, factories issue a press release about sustainability, and the rest of us carry on binge-watching shows powered by coal-fired electricity. If hypocrisy could cool the planet, we’d all be living in Antarctica by now.

So here’s a radical thought: maybe instead of “celebrating” Ozone Day with seminars, we just, you know… stop punching holes in the poor thing? Drive a little less, waste a little less, stop treating plastic like a love language. Lower the temperature. Not just of the planet, but of our inflated sense of “awareness.”