People are not paying attention to environmental protection. Causes and solutions ??

ĐỀ 16/4/2011

People are not paying attention to environmental protection. Give causes and solutions.

Causes :

-         Governments : lack of effort and law enforcement

-         Objective reasons : economic imbalance between nations

Solutions:

-         Governments : prohibition of natural exploitation, discouragement of private transportation, establishment of international treaties.

-         Citizens: awareness of environment protection through educational programs

-         Children : inculcating with consequences of environmental damage

Environment is calling our name worldwide, especially with the frequent occurance of natural disasters from tsunami to earthquakes. That is the acknowledged threat to the survival of humankind, but the truth remains that people seem to be busy with something else, rather than the mission of salvaging the world before it is too late. Reasons for peole’s blatant ignorance of this fact are various, subjectively and objectively.

Governments are partly to be condemned for their lack of serious effort and radical law enforcement on environment protection. The fact is that people around the globe are still releasing a huge amount of waste, without being heavily penaltized or get away with this, perhaps by simply lobbying government or bribing some key figures in the authorities. Also, despite the fact that authorities are urging people into using environment friendly products and campaigns to keep the environment clean, ironically, they are, simultaneously, allowing businessmen to produce as many cars as possible and advertisers to spur consumerism among people. This is undeniably the catalyst for the booming of air pollution and early exhaustion of natural resources.

Objectively, economic imbalance between nations is another culprit of people’s little attention to save the environment. While some nations pass their economic heights, being willing to voice their protests against any action dirtying the environment, others are too hectic with the prodding call of poverty and illiteracy of citizens and find themselves at variance with priorities of developed world. In this case, any attempt to slow down the development of the latter proves paradoxical, and for that reason, our environment stays fully exploited. The painful truth is that the inherent basic instinct of people, after all, is to feed themselves as much as possible, before thinking of preserving their environment.

Solutions to this head-aching issue are suggested. Drastic measures implemented by governments to minimize pollution are the prohibition of natural exploitation above the limit, discouragement of private means of transportation, and establishment of international treaties, for instance, Kyoto. Nevertheless, this means no worth if each citizens, himself of herself, pays no heed. Long-term remedies, educational programs to raise people’s awareness of environment protection are strongly recommended. It would be such an effective method to inculcate in our little children the immediate consequences of environmental damage, by introducing the environment protection as the mandatory subject at school and frequently showing videos of environment hazards on TV everywhere. I strongly believe that once these threats caused environment degradations are deeply embeded in our minds, especially, children’s, our environment will soon be away from jeopardy and our world will be green again.

-         Salvage (v) cứu nguy – (n) salvaging : sự cứu vớt

-         Blatant (adj) rành rành, hiển nhiên = evident = obvious = patent

-         Subjective (adj) chủ quan > < objective (adj) khách quan

-         Condemn (v) lên án, chỉ trích

-         Penalize (v) phạt, trừng trị

-         Lobby (v) vận động hành lang

-         Bribe /braib/ (n) (v) hối lộ, đút lót

-         Ironically (adv) nực cười, mỉa mai, trớ trêu

-         Simultaneously (adv) đồng thời

-         Protest + again (v) (n) phản đối, phản kháng

-         Hectic (adj) cuồng nhiệt, sôi nổi, say sưa

-         Prod (v) thúc giục, kích động

-         Variance (n) sự không ăn khớp, sự mâu thuẫn, mối bất hòa

-         Paradoxical (adj) ngược đời, nghịch lý

-         Instinct (n) bản năng, năng khiếu

-         Drastic measures are inplemented : các biện pháp quyết liệt được thực thi

-         Heed (v) chú ý, lưu ý = notice = mind = pay attention to

-         Hazard (n) mối nguy hiểm = jeopardy = danger = peril

-         Embed in one’s mind : ghi vào trí nhớ = engrave = inculcate