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Are we producing more atmosphere than we lose at this point in time?

I guess my question is pretty simple. At this point in time is the planet producing more atmosphere than we are losing to solar wind or are we slowly losing atmosphere? 

What are some of the factors affecting our atmospheric production or decline?

Is our atmosphere undergoing any kind of changing state? As in, more oxygen rich, less oxygen rich? Etc....
gpt
We are always slowly losing atmosphere. As you mention, we do have solar wind stripping us, but there is also the spontaneous generation of free hydrogen and helium by radioactive processes to consider. These are usually trapped within rock or liquid, but once freed, the atoms experience buoyant force, and barring the occasional spontaneous reactions of hydrogen with oxygen, nitrogen and other molecules to form compounds in our atmosphere, each attains escape velocity and pops off into space. The earth does not produce any more of the elements present in our atmosphere, excluding some rare radioactive decays creating short-lived heavy noble gases (radon), so we are losing mass and atmosphere faster than we produce it.