Describe a major environmental problems and what you believe should be done about it.4.5 billion years ago, our planet, the earth, was formed. 600 million years later, one of the most marvelous gifts that the god has given to the earth, lives, had begun. Everything went well until 200 thousand years ago, a kind of organisms with amazing intelligence ever existed had evolved and begun to take everything in this planet for its own benefits. The organism that considered itself as a dominant organism on this world, human, has brought chaos to this world along with its development. As humans have lived on the earth, many natural resources have been used without any limits causing the environment to deteriorate. The three major issues on the environment include global warming, pollution, and natural resource depletion. One of the main environmental issues that has been discussed for many years is global warming. The global warming is an environmental problem occurred from increasing of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, methane, and CFCs are some examples of the greenhouse gases which can trap heat and keep the heat within the earth’s atmosphere causing the raise in temperature of the earth. While using many natural resources of humans like burning fuels in car, producing electricity from natural gases gave mankind energy, it also produced greenhouse gases at the same time. As the global warming has become more and more concerning problem, many countries around the world have decided to make an agreement to reduce emission of the greenhouse gases. However, a large amount of the greenhouse gases still be released due to the demand in the energy and industrial products of humans, so it tends to be impossible to stop the emission of these gases. In addition, the things that humans can do for the environment is to reduce deforestation and increase plant growing because photosynthesis of plants can absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen for living things to use. Although this could not solve the whole issue, it’s still better than ignore this problem. Another chief problem is pollution. The pollution is also a considerable environmental problem which can be classified into two major types, including air pollution and water pollution. Since machines have been developed, they were used numerously to replace humans in industrial fields. Nevertheless, water has also involved in some processes of manufacturing, it was used in contact with harmful chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive waste and organic sludge which will be released directly into lakes and rivers. In some cases, garbage and human litters were dumped into water bodies causing problems to aquatic animals and also ecosystem. The industrial chemicals were found in fishes which are later consumed by humans. Not to mention air pollutants, the air pollutions are mainly caused by burning of fossil fuels from vehicles, power plants and emission from factories. In result of respiratory problems and heart problems. Also, acid rain can be formed by water droplets combine with harmful gases and fall down to the ground dealing the great damages to humans, animals and plants. As humans need to rely on industrial products, it would be difficult to eliminate all of the pollutions. Thus, the things that mankind should do for our world is to do the water treatment before release it back to the environment and also decrease the amount of gases that can be released. A further point to consider in the topic of environmental problems is natural resource depletion. The depletion of natural resources is the running out of resources which caused from mankind. As the humans have lived in this world, the population of human has increased continuously. Along with this increasing, the need of habitats and resources increase rapidly, while the number of the habitats and resources tend to decrease due to the deforestation, using of fossil fuels, natural gases and oil to provide energy to the humankind. These resources consuming caused the trees, oil, fuels, and other natural resources to decrease and run out because these resources take a lot of time for them to be recreated. Therefore, depletion of the natural resources should be solved before there will be remain any resources for the mankind to use, so the thing that we can do is to limit the uses of the natural resources or use them wisely and worthily. As regard to the discussed issues, it is clear that our world has faced to many environmental problems like global warming, pollution, and also the depletion of natural resources. Nonetheless, there can be no doubt that most of these issues were occurred from the humankind. It is undeniable that the earth would not be polluted without humans, and these issues affect not only the humans but also the rest of this entire world. For these reasons, the humankind should take responsibility for these environmental problems. The challenge for the society is to find the ways to solve these problems together. These issues would not be able to solve by the laws or governments of every countries, but these issues would be solved by the collaboration of everyone. In addition, we should realize that nature can live without humans, but humans cannot live without nature. I was assigned to write an essay on chosen topic, which I chose environmental problems. Because nowadays, these problems became more and more serious. And I'm covering three major environmental problems including global warming, pollution, and natural resource depletion.
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