Although the governments require individuals to do something to cope with the environmental problem, I feel that there are limitations of what individuals can do since the many parts of the environmental problem are complicated so individuals cannot cope with the environmental problem which might need authority or power to solve the problem and individuals do not have experiences or suitable skills for solving the complicated environmental problem.
To begin with, individuals do not deal with the environmental problem which needs many people and much time to solve it. Individuals can do the small things for the environmental problem such as recycling garbage or reducing amount of water they use. However, they cannot afford to do the work to solve the complicated environmental problem like depleting carbon emission so that they do not have any power to control the factors which mainly cause the environmental problem. For instance, carbon emission is usually occurred from factories and fire generator which produce electricity. Although individuals know that the factories and fire generator provoke carbon emission, they cannot stop them so that there are monetary deficits and the other arguments appeared from the result of stopping them.
Not having any experiences or suitable skills for the complicated environmental problem is limitation for individuals. These days, the more complicated environmental problem is happened, the more various environmental problem are happened. So, to solve the environmental problem which needed professional knowledge such as physics or chemistry, there are many people who get a high education necessary to solve this problem while grasping the problem and finding solutions.
To sum up, individual cannot deal with every environmental problem. Especially they cannot do anything problem when the environmental problem requires authority and special technology to solve it. Therefore, as I see, individual are not able to do for the environmental problem because of limitation about the complex and variety of the environmental problem.
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