Protecting the environment is the most important problem facing the world today

It is my firm belief that protecting the environment is a problem that should concern all the people around the world. The term environment can be defined as the combination of both the living and non-living things that surround an organism and consequently affect the growth and development of the organism. We are in a continous conextion with the environment, and the way we treat it, affects us. As a result of the demographic explosion, and the industrial boom, the necesity for working materials and energy has sufferd a huge increase, and the intense exploitation of the Earth`s resources, reveals , obviously, and unbalanced environment. We only think at the profit we obtain, but we don`t think at the concequences of our actions. Perhaps the most important environmental problem is climate change. As more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are emitted to the environment, the worlds climate keeps changing causing serious problems that may be hard or impossible to reverse. The temperatures are drastically rising; more droughts and floods are being recorded and this is affecting both animal and plant life. Another great problem facing the environment is pollution. Air pollution caused by harmful gases such as Nitrogen dioxide that are released by industries causes acid rain that has been known to cause diseases to animals as well as affecting plant life.

The world`s future is doubtful and if we don`t start to make changes, the planet and the poeple are facing a huge disaster. The next generation and their quality of life will be solely dependent on the decisions we take now to protect the environment.