Climate change is a phenomenon affecting all people in all walks of life, from individual citizens to whole countries and huge multinational companies. Therefore, I disagree with the notion that the only way to address the environmental problems is at international level. I firmly believe that this colossal problem can only be handled if all individuals contribute; all governments take steps at national as well as international level.
Many steps can be taken at the national and international level. By imposing restrictions on emissions and by strictly monitoring waste disposal from factories, plants and businesses, governments would go a long way towards preventing climate change. Furthermore, governments around the world should come up with solutions to help prevent imminent environmental disaster. The Kyoto Agreement in the 1990s tried to create international consensus to limit industrial emissions of gases. Many countries which are part of United Nations signed this agreement according to which they would not allow any industries to be set up which emitted more than 5. 2% carbon dioxide.
Some people claim that individual action is irrelevant in the face of massive, wide-scale prevention policies set and controlled by governments. On the other hand, it is also a fact that individual combined with governmental action can do a lot more to prevent climate change than if individual citizens were not involved. In a world of six billion people, if everyone stopped wasting water, disposed of their rubbish properly, started accepting recycled material and stopped succumbing to consumerism then it would go a long way in solving the problem of environment.
In conclusion, I suppose that individual citizens cannot sit back and say it is someone else’s responsibility to protect the environment; we must all play our part - individual citizens and governments at the national and international level.
Climate
change
is a phenomenon affecting all
people
in all walks of life, from
individual
citizens
to whole countries and huge multinational
companies
.
Therefore
, I disagree with the notion that the
only
way to address the environmental problems is at
international
level. I
firmly
believe that this colossal problem can
only
be handled
if all
individuals
contribute; all
governments
take steps at national
as well
as
international
level.
Many
steps can
be taken
at the national and
international
level. By imposing restrictions on emissions and by
strictly
monitoring waste disposal from factories, plants and businesses,
governments
would go a long way towards preventing climate
change
.
Furthermore
,
governments
around the world should
come
up with solutions to
help
prevent
imminent environmental disaster. The Kyoto Agreement in the 1990s tried to create
international
consensus to limit industrial emissions of gases.
Many
countries which are part of United Nations signed this agreement according to which they would not
allow
any industries to
be set
up which emitted more than 5. 2% carbon dioxide.
Some
people
claim that
individual
action is irrelevant in the face of massive, wide-scale prevention policies set and controlled by
governments
.
On the other hand
, it is
also
a fact that
individual
combined with governmental action can do a lot more to
prevent
climate
change
than if
individual
citizens
were not involved. In a world of six billion
people
, if everyone
stopped
wasting water, disposed of their rubbish
properly
,
started
accepting recycled material and
stopped
succumbing to consumerism then it would go a long way in solving the problem of environment.
In conclusion
, I suppose that
individual
citizens
cannot sit back and say it is someone else’s responsibility to protect the environment; we
must
all play our part
-
individual
citizens
and
governments
at the national and
international
level.