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Why is the stratospheric ozone layer important?

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Why is the stratospheric ozone layer important?

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As well as emitted visible light, the sun also emits short-wavelength ultraviolet wavelengths. The ozone layer absorbs the shorter, more hazardous, ultraviolet wavelengths and therefore prevents them from reaching the earth’s surface.

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