ENVIRONMENT

Environmental pollution
• Environment Contamination
• acid rain
• Burning fossil fuels
• Carpool
• Climate change
• Global warming
• Dump waste
• Hazardous waste
• Self-sufficient farming/agriculture
 Endangered species
• Extirpated
• Red list
• Critically endangered
• Breed in captivity
• Demise of thousands of species
• Teeter on the brink of extinction
• Area of occupancy
• Conservation efforts
• Zoonotic diseases
 Energy resources
• Energy consumption
• Run on sth
• Resort to greener alternatives
• Overexploitation
• Energy depletion
• Energy crisis
• Adopt carbon abatement technology
• Curtail carbon footprint
• Cultivate good habits
 Waste treatment
• Throw away society
• Decentralized waste treatment system
• Waste hierarchy
• Polluter pays principle
• International waste trade
• Product life cycle analysis
• Waste segregation
• Use optimal sustainable designs
• Eliminate solid waste
 Transportation & Environment
• Ubiquity of private vehicles
• Major contributor to atmospheric pollution
• Exhaust noxious
• Pose a threat to
• Inflict degradation of the natural environment
• Impair the air quality
• Impose stricter regulations
OUTLINE
Topic 1: Disagree
Much attention has been paid to wildlife protection; however, more can be
done to save the animals which are on the verge of extinction
Causes
• Lack of education (ignorance)
• Lack of resources to protect the environment
• Destroy the environment for livelihood
Solutions
• Education
• Provide job
• Support them with waste classification facilities
Topic 2:
• When it comes to the question of where students
should get the knowledge of biodiversity from, the
opinion diverges. While some people hold a belief
that formal education really works in this situation,
others reckon that students should be given leeway
to explore this knowledge from any sources they can.
I am in favor of the latter and will justify my opinion
in the following essay.
Causes: Educating at school
• More effective:
• diverse curriculum: monitoring and recording local flora and fauna can
be used for experiential learning in subjects such as arithmetic,
mathematics and even geometry => more interesting
• More motivating: learn with teachers and friends /field trips
• Cost-effective and safe:
• More interesting: Explore the great outdoors; Allowing schoolchildren
time out to look around, smell, feel and touch nature offers the
possibilities of discovering myriad plants, birds and wildlife. Being
immersed in nature also gives context to valuable lessons centred on
the impact of environmental changes and our relationship with the
wider world.
• Authentic: Field trips to local nature reserves, farms and woodlands
broaden horizons even further and open young minds to a range of
biodiverse environments.
• More effective:
Topic 3: Causes
• Over-exploitation
• Population boom
• Economic benefits
• Climate change
• Drought/Flood => decline in agriculture productivity (E.g.
Africa)
• Pollution
• The poisoning of water, soil and air with non-agricultural
industrial toxins => diseases in potato