Many people believe that individuals can do nothing for the environment because environment issues are very complex. However, in my opinion, there are many ways to solve the environment issues though very complex to peoples. The reasons for this are that individuals can use public transportation instead of their own vehicles and they can reduce electricity usage at home.
To begin with, people can use transportation to lower air pollution level. To be specific, as you know car is one of the biggest source of pollutions that very bad for people and eventually it cause environment issues. For example, Seoul, which is Korean capital city, government sponsor an annual car-free day. On these days, the roads of Seoul are very complex because of cars that produce exhaust and bring about air pollution. As a result, many people should leave their own cars at home and use buses, subway, and other means of public transportation.
In addition, individuals can help environment issues by reducing electricity at home. Most electricity produced by power plant, which release CO2 into the air. CO2 is one of the biggest reason cause environment. If we use less electricity at home, power plant will emit less CO2. According to the research, most people are watching Television for three hours a day, he or she uses about 200 kilowatts of electricity a year. This mean that people naturally give off CO2 by watching television. If people reduced the half time of watching television, then this will save about 42 kilowatts of CO2 from being release every year.
As stated above, individuals can improve the environment not only switching to public transportation but also saving electricity at home. Although there are many ways to solve the environment issues except the two things, practice these two basic things are enough to solve the environment. For these reasons, I disagree with the idea that individuals can do nothing about the environment on their own. |