▶ Your Answer : Although environmental problems these days are often very complex and hard to solve for individual people, I don't agree with the idea that individual people can't do anything to contribute to solving those problems. And here are two reasons. First, there are simple environmental problems as well that people can solve. For example, people have something to do about matters such as recycling, not wasting too much paper. Maybe some people might ask how doing such a simple task will help to deal with environmental issues, but in fact it helps. When more and more people care about environment, it will lead to big change. There was a research conducted by department of environment in Korea. The purpose of the research was to estimate the impact of fossil fuels on the atmosphere. The result was that 80 percent of components of fine dust and smog in the air were from fossil fuels from factory, automobiles. This indicates that our simple actions like making things in factory and riding a car deteriorates environmental problem. We have to at least minimize the problem in our way. Second, if individual people can do something practical to solve the problem, they can insist to solve those quickly. To be specific, they can voice their opinion that we should do something about environmental matters, and environmental issues are very urgent and important issue. By just mentioning about it and making people have interest in it, it can make change. For instance, I have a friend who is working at the school club which make an issue about environment, and she and her club members did a lot of things like cleaning street, making fund to help endangered animals. One day, they decided to have a campaign about reusing recycled items and making it into daily items such as cases. They advertised what they were going to do and serious problems about not recycling things on the street, and luckily, some people got interested. To sum up, considering facts that not all the problems are hard for individual people to solve, and people can let out their opinion, we can help to save our world by ourselves too. If we make small steps together, we will eventually get a clue to solve complex environmental issues. |