Hazards of the 21 Century
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Hazards of the 21st century.
In my essay I would like to draw the readers’ close attention to the one of the most urgent issues of the 21st century, that is the environmental issue. New and terrifying events are happening as mankind is taking the first steps into the 21st century. The world’s population has always been faced with risks, but today such risks have the potential to inflict devastating damage on all that people value - the environment, property, health, life itself. Some of the alarming headlines are quite familiar and widely-known nowadays - damaging windstorms and flooding in Europe, ice storms in Canada, hurricanes in the USA, tsunami in Indian Ocean and Japan.
The twentieth century was marked by both the recognition and creation of a plenty of environmental problems. Our twenty-first century bears the burden of resolving these problems and preventing the emergence of more. Environmental problems can be found in all areas of the world. Some affect the water, others affect the air, and still others affect the land and the animals. But still these environmental problems can be reduced or eliminated through corrective actions.
The environmental issues of today are as diverse as they are serious. In most cases, the daily life of developing countries have the tendency to depend on natural resources such as forests, soil and water, so that many of the efforts to fight against poverty, hunger, diseases inevitably result in the destruction of nature, strengthened by the effects of overpopulation and urbanization.
Nowadays environmental problems are too big to be managed by individual persons or individual countries. In other words, it is an international problem. Therefore, it is vital that environmental issues should be treated internationally.
However, the influence of individuals on the environment should not be ignored. If we do not admit that our planet is our home, we will never be able to take adequate care of it....
In my essay I would like to draw the readers’ close attention to the one of the most urgent issues of the 21st century, that is the environmental issue. New and terrifying events are happening as mankind is taking the first steps into the 21st century. The world’s population has always been faced with risks, but today such risks have the potential to inflict devastating damage on all that people value - the environment, property, health, life itself. Some of the alarming headlines are quite familiar and widely-known nowadays - damaging windstorms and flooding in Europe, ice storms in Canada, hurricanes in the USA, tsunami in Indian Ocean and Japan.
The twentieth century was marked by both the recognition and creation of a plenty of environmental problems. Our twenty-first century bears the burden of resolving these problems and preventing the emergence of more. Environmental problems can be found in all areas of the world. Some affect the water, others affect the air, and still others affect the land and the animals. But still these environmental problems can be reduced or eliminated through corrective actions.
The environmental issues of today are as diverse as they are serious. In most cases, the daily life of developing countries have the tendency to depend on natural resources such as forests, soil and water, so that many of the efforts to fight against poverty, hunger, diseases inevitably result in the destruction of nature, strengthened by the effects of overpopulation and urbanization.
Nowadays environmental problems are too big to be managed by individual persons or individual countries. In other words, it is an international problem. Therefore, it is vital that environmental issues should be treated internationally.
However, the influence of individuals on the environment should not be ignored. If we do not admit that our planet is our home, we will never be able to take adequate care of it....