II. Let’s talk about environment
Computers
project that between now and the year of 2030 we are going to have an increase
of the average temperature between 1.5 - 4.5 degrees C. Sea levels would rise
by several metres, flooding coastal ar¬eas and ruining vast tracks of farmland.
Huge areas would be infertile and become uninhabitable. Water contamination
could lead to shortages of safe drinking water. It looks like the end of
civilization on the Earth.
Every year the
world’s industry pollutes the atmosphere with mil¬lions of tons of dust and
other harmful substances. The seas and rivers are poisoned with industrial
waste. People who live in big cities are badly affected by harmful discharge
from plants and city transport and by the increasing noise level which is bad
for human health.
Among the most
urgent problems are depletion of the ozone layer, acid rains and global
warming. Another serious environmental problem is the disappearance of forests.
There are a lot of places on our planet that need immediate help. The nuclear
accident of Chernobyl has seri¬ously aggravated the ecological situation in
Belarus. About 18 per cent of the country’s soil is unfit for farming and some
districts in the south¬east of the country are dangerous to live in. So nature
protection should become everybody’s concern.
I believe that
environmental disasters can be avoided if people broaden ecological education
and every person understands that the beauty of nature is extremely fragile. In
my opinion, people must obey the unwritten rules of nature. Governments must
take serous actions against pollution. Many countries reduce air pollution
making plants and factories fit affective filters on chimneys and car exhausts.
They try to use natural recourses more economically. Green zones around big
cities are protected and extended.
As well as I
know most people in America and Europe are ecologi- cally-conscious and they do
many things to help the environment. For
example, they have
so-called “Clean Air Day”. Its aim is to encourage people to walk, bike, ride
public transit, thereby reducing the use of per¬sonal cars. Carpooling is an
arrangement among car owners by which each of them takes a turn driving the
others to and from a designed place. So less gas is burnt and less emissions
are discharged into the at-mosphere. In many countries people work together on
the program of sustainable development called “Local Agenda 21”, which was set
up in 1992.
There are many
things people can do at home to help nature. They could waste less water by
fixing leaky pipes, turning off the tap while brushing their teeth, taking
showers instead of baths. People should re¬member that paper is not garbage and
it can be recycled. By recycling of one ton of newspapers we save 17 trees.
People should buy in bulk so that to eliminate the trash from extra-packaging,
they should bike more and use public transport.
I strongly
believe that we must consume less, recycle more, con-serve wildlife and nature,
act according to the dictum “think locally, think globally, act locally”. If we
don’t realize that we are responsible for what’s happening around us, we will
never feel secure about the fu-ture of the world we live in.
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