Today, I’m going to talk about the
environment problems. Environmental problems are one of the biggest problems in
the world. Do you know what kind of environmental pollutions there are in the
world? Water pollution, atmospheric pollution, noise pollution, olfactory pollution,
garbage problem, global warming, desertification and destruction of forests will
be famous problems in the world. This time, I mention garbage problem, global
warming and atmospheric pollution.
First, garbage problem is a big problem. People
dump a lot of garbage every day. Also, no matter how much people burn up them, finally
they have the rest of them and they need many final disposal sites. Japanese government
enacted The Basic Law for Establishing the Recycling-based Society in 2000. Then,
it mentioned that people should work on 3R which means ‘reduce, reuse and recycle’.
In addition, each local government issued regulations about garbage and most of
them decide that people have to pay money for garbage disposal.
Second, global warming is famous all over
the world. It is the global increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s
atmosphere and seawater due to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels
of carbon dioxide. Because of the global warming, we will have abnormal
weather, the rise in sea level because of melting of glaciers and ice sheets,
destroying the ecosystem, expanding of infectious diseases and food problem. In
Japan, people work on the conservation of energy. In 2005, The Japanese Ministry
of the Environment began advocating the Cool Biz campaign to help reduce
electric consumption by limiting use of air conditioning. It recommended that companies
set air conditioner temperatures at 28 °C until September and workers wear
trousers made from airy materials and short-sleeved shirts without jackets or
ties.
Third, atmospheric pollution is also the
problem which people should work on. It is the pollution that the increasing of
particulates, biological molecules, or other harmful materials in the Earth's
atmosphere cause diseases and deaths for people and animals and damage for plants.
The cause is smokes from cars, factories, garbage treatment plants and thermal
power generation. In Japan, people work on ‘idling stop’ which is the word made
in Japan and which means no idling or idle reduction. It is campaign that
people should shuts down and restarts car’s engines to reduce the amount of
time the engine spends idling and reducing exhaust gasses.
There are many kinds of environmental
problems in the world. People likely to demand convenience and hope to live as
much as they like. However, these thinking cause the environmental problems. Now,
people have to live more in touch with reality and work on to solve the issues.
According to the article ‘Sea Level Rise’ by National Geographic, a recent study says we can expect the oceansto rise between 2.5 and 6.5 feet (0.8 and 2 meters) by 2100, enough to swampmany of the cities along the U.S. East Coast. More dire estimates, including acomplete meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet, push sea level rise to 23 feet (7meters), enough to submerge London. It is only one examle of environmental problem's effects. If people don’t work on environmental problems
now, their future will be cheerless and gloomy.
Sea Level Rise -- National Geographic
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