environment problems is a personal , national or international problem?

ĐỀ 7/5/2011

Nowadays, environmental problems are too big to be managed by an individual person or individual country. In other words, it is an international problem. Agree or disagree?

-         Each person protect environment -->  the world saved

-         Governments rescue environment by follow regulations

-         Both developed and developing countries have to take action

-         Dealing with the disappearance of endangered species needs global support.

Environment is at high risk. Undeniably, people, today, are facing an ever-increasing occurrence of natural disasters from tsunami, greenhouse effect, earthquake to global warming. It is believed that these consequences are the result of not a single nation, but the globe, and thus, it is time for the whole world to be responsible for this issue. I strongly agree with this idea.

First, each person is an active agent to protect the environment. With each tree erected by an individual, greenness is widespread and environment will be saved eventually. What would happen actually in case that people of a nation are trying their utmost to protect the environment while others lift no hand to do this and even unremittingly release industrial waste in hope of fast-growing industrialization? That is the reason why so as to rescue our beloved environment, governments of all nations are required to implement a joint-effort by following international regulations and setting up global treaties to limit the amount of pollution discharged by each country, for example, Kyoto.

Second, in the context of industrialization, the economy of each country is reaching its heights, especially in the third world countries with their overheating economies. Hence, rarely would these governments prioritize environment pollution, while caught in the economic race with other countries, if the radical international intervention was not imposed. Another example is that the radioactivity from nuclear plants, as a consequence of the unexpected earthquake in Japan, is infectious, threatening the survival of people domestically and species across the nation. The issue would be much exacerbated as other neighboring nations are ignorant of this, and by this, they are, in fact, harming their own destinies as well. The action to lend technological support by developed nations to developing ones, for instance, the environment – friendly assembly line, is one of effective remedies to reduce pollution caused by the untreated industrial waste.

Finally, when it comes to the issue of the overwhelming disappearance of endangered animals which leads to ecological imbalance, by no means can a nation combat radically devoid of global support. Specious fishes in the ocean across different countries in a continent are culled uncontrollably by a group of people in a specific location for sake of profit. It is by dint of international drastic law on prohibiting the exploitation of rare species that our natural animal kingdom is less intimidated. According to social surveys, annually, international teams of conservationists have caught global thieves who attempted to kill these animals for illegal trading.

Put it simply, without the world’s attempt, the environment is definitely in danger, as a result of pollution and vast disappearance of key animals to balance our ecology.

-           Prohibit (v) cấm = ban = bar = interdict = forbid

-         Exploitation (n) sự khai thác, bóc lột  -  (v) exploit

-         Drastic (adj) mạnh mẽ, quyết liệt = peremptory (adj) kiên quyết

-         Conservationist (n) người ủng hộ công cuộc bảo vệ môi trường

-         Intimidate (v) hăm dọa, đe dọa = menace (n)(v) = threaten (v)

-         Combat (v) chiến đấu chống lại, tiêu diệt cái có hại

-         Devoid (adj) không có, trống rỗng, thiếu = without

-         Intervention (n) sự can thiệp, sự xen vào

-         Radioactivity (n) tính phóng xạ, năng lực phóng xạ

-         Nuclear plants (n) nhà máy hạt nhân

-         Infectious (adj) lan truyền, lây nhiễm

-         Exacerbate  = acerbate (v) làm tệ hại hơn, làm trầm trọng hơn

-         Ignorant of sth (adj) không biết, ngu dốt – (n) ignorance

-         Assembly line (n) dây chuyền lắp ráp

-         Try one’s utmost (v) cố gắng hết sức mình

-         Unremitting (adj) không ngớt, không ngừng, không giảm

-         Rescue (v) giải thoát , cứu nguy

-         Implement (v) thi hành, thực hiện đầy đủ, bổ sung

-         Treaty (n) hiệp ước, thỏa thuận, hiệp định

-         Agent (n) tác nhân