Environmental Problems

Nowadays environmental problems are too big to be managed by individual people or countries.
In other words, it is an international problem. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

 When people go to another country whether to live or just to travel, they first look at the environment. Without any doubt, all countries in the world have their own environmental problems. Whether these problems are caused by natural reasons or manmade reasons, they bring many disadvantages to countries. There are natural environmental problems such as draught that men cannot control however, most of the problems countries have are manmade. With a little bit of support from people, countries can  be safe from any disasters.

 Ever since humans started driving cars, pollution became a main issue. Everyone can agree that cars are useful and make our lives easier, however, the gas emitted from cars pollute the air. Pollution in the air will get rid of the beautiful blue skies that some countries have and turn it into a yellow sky just like India or China's. To avoid this, people should either walk or use public transport more. Bicycles are good too. In Korea, since the sky has started turning yellow, the government announced that cars can only be driven six days a week. People can decide which day not to drive and put a sticker on their cars. If people keep the rule and use public transport more, air pollution won't be much of an issue.

 There are other types of pollution that are caused by people's laziness. Some water pollution is caused by people throwing rubbish in the river or in the sea. These people are just too lazy to throw rubbish in a proper place, they want to throw it away as soon as they get it. Even though, these people won't stop doing that until they die (I'm pretty sure they will), we can be the people who clean up the mess. If you see rubbish on the ground or anywhere else, just picking it up and putting it in a nearest bin would help the country a lot. You might think that you are the only person to do this but that's not true. I'm pretty sure that many people in the world do this and have been doing it for a long time. These acts of kindness not only helps the environment and your country, but it will make you feel like you've actually done something right.

 Some countries are just too polluted and it's too late for them to return to their original state. However, even if your country belongs to one of those countries, you can still help your country reduce other problems or stop it from getting worse. Just simple acts of picking up rubbish or using more public transport is the way. In short term, these might look nothing. However, if someone does this for his/her entire life, the amount of rubbish picked up or the amount of gas saved will be huge. What are you doing right now to help your country?

                                            This shows the number of deaths from air pollution.
                                            As you can see, Asia has the most number of deaths.

                                           This shows the per capita carbon dioxide production
                                           of some of the major countries in the world.