Environmental Issues

1. Do you think cars should be banned from city centers?

a. Tell me about the advantages and disadvantages of this.
2. How has the world changed since you were a child? (technology, values, environment, health)
3. What are some ways that you can reduce pollution in this country?
4. Which is more important, increasing people's standard of living, or protecting the
environment?
a. What would your friends say about it?
b. What would your family say? Why?
5. Who do you think is more responsible for pollution, individual people or the government?
6. What is the most important issue facing the environment today?
7. If you could choose one alternative energy source to develop which one would you choose?
8. Are companies more or less environmentally responsible now than they were in the past?
Why?
9. Should we make the development of renewable energy sources an economic priority?
10. What is the main problem with renewable energy sources?
11. Do you think overpopulation is an important environmental issue? Why or why not?
12. Should gas for motorists be more expensive? What would be the advantages and disadvantages
of this?
13. Does your local government make it easy or hard for citizens to recycle?
14. How is pollution affecting the environment of your country?
15. What are the benefits/ disadvantages of a smoking ban?
16. In what ways can we save more water? Please tell about your experiences.
17. What should we do to increase the awareness about environmental pollution?
18. Does your local government make it easy or hard for citizens to recycle?
19. How does it make you feel when you see people littering (dropping trash in the street)?
a. How could you persuade people not to do this?
b. How could it be improved?
20. How does it make you feel when you see people not recycling?
21. Do you think your government is doing enough to help the environment? Why? Why not?
22. What are the most important environmental concerns in your country?
23. If you had to choose the most dangerous one, which one would you choose?
24. What solutions would you propose to avoid this problem?
25. What do you personally do to preserve your environment?