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 • Being environmentally aware means understanding
how our behavior impacts the environment and
committing to making changes to our activities to
ENVIRONME protect the planet. The environmentalist
movement in recent decades has prompted many
NT people to make both minor and substantial lifestyle
changes to live in a more environmentally friendly
AWARENESS way. Being environmentally friendly means
reducing your impact on the environment as much
as possible. Individuals affect the environment in a
variety of ways including pollution emission to
land, air and water, use of natural resources,
energy consumption and waste.
 • Since the industrial revolution, concentrations of
greenhouse gases have increased by more than a
third. This highlights how human activity has the
greatest impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
Therefore, it is our responsibility to change our
ENVIRONMENT behaviour to protect the environment.Due to the rise
in greenhouse gas emissions, research suggests that
AL the global temperatures might increase by more than
two degrees Celsius by the end of the century. This
AWARENESS means extreme climate change, including hurricanes,
droughts and floods. These conditions jeopardise
IMPORTANCE biodiversity, human welfare and wildlife. As we have
lived in such an unsustainable manner for the past few
decades, the security of our natural resources is also
at risk. It is essential that everyone understands their
impact on the environment and actively engages with
attempts to promote sustainable development.
FACTORS AFFECTING ENVIRONMENT
• Oil drilling: Oil spillages are poisoning marine life, and the burning of oil
alongside other fossil fuels is contributing to the greenhouse effect. This
causes rises in global temperatures which results in climate change.
• Deforestation: Humans are cutting down millions of acres of trees for
industrial purposes. Not only does this jeopardise biodiversity, it also
contributes to the greenhouse effect by removing carbon sinks that
remove carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere.
• Plastic goods: The U.K. generates far too much waste, and much of this is
plastic. Plastic is made of materials that might take hundreds of years to
decompose. The production of plastic also releases greenhouse gases.
ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARENESS NATIONALLY
• Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing
environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of
disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to
deal with them. Plastic pollution is most visible in developing
Asian and African nations, where garbage collection systems
are often inefficient or nonexistent. But the developed world,
especially in countries with low recycling rates, also has
trouble properly collecting discarded plastics. Plastic trash
has become so ubiquitous it has prompted efforts to write a
global treaty negotiated by the United Nations. Plastics made
from fossil fuels are just over a century old. Production and
development of thousands of new plastic products
accelerated after World War II, so transforming the modern
age that life without plastics would be unrecognizable today.
Plastics revolutionized medicine with life-saving devices,
made space travel possible, lightened cars and jets—saving
fuel and pollution—and saved lives with helmets, incubators,
and equipment for clean drinking water.