▶ Your Answer : Some people think that personal effort is the essential factor to save the environment. However, in my opinion, advantage of individual endeavor is so small that it can be easily clouded by the other problems. There are two issues that we have to consider: the goverment's policy and the world's effort. To begin with, even if individual put a lot of effort to save the environment, it would not have any significant outcome unless the goverment policy supports this. I admit that personal behavior to save the environement such as distributing the trash and save water, but this kind of small effect can be nothing if the government made huge failure on the environmental policy. In Korea, the previous president, the Myeong Bak Lee put his spirit in the four major river development project. His intention was that if we develop the rivers, than many vessels can be used as transportation system and it will higer the economic growth of my country. Although there was many concerns that it will destroy the environment, he just continued the policy. As a result, the water became green, and countless fishes which were living there are dead because of polluted water. Many environmental specialists say that the money required to get the river recover is myriad. Although Korean people are very accustomed to the environmental issues, this shows that the environment can be easily disrupted by the goverment's ridiculous policy. On the top of that, as we are living in the world of globalization, all the counties in the world should work on the environmental problem rather than persons themselves. Suppose that your country is working hard to realize the environmental-friendly society but all the other countries only focus on their economic issues and not on the environmental ones. The world will be so contaminated. As our world is connected reciprocally, all the world should focus on the environmental issues. Recently, air in my country became so bad and that people cannot go out without their masks on. This was due to the air pollution from Chinese factories coming to my county and also to my country's internal waste. In the article concerning this problem said that the cause is 50 to 50. In other words, even if my country reduce the amount of waste internally, it cannot be 100% clean as the past. So this is the reason why all the world should work out in the environmental issues. To sum up, considering the importance of governmental and world's endeavor, I firmly hold the belief that individual behavior cannot alleviate the environmental problems. |