Hazards_of_the_21_Century

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. We have to contribute every day to the preservation of nature and environment. For instance, always remember to save energy by switching off lamps, computers and everything that we do not use. Our next obligation is to separate waste and throw garbage only in the designated places. There have been so many environmental problems that exist in our world today. I would like to mention only some of the environmental issues which I believe deserve more careful attention by the authorities and all people around the world. The first issue is global warming - our environmental climate is changing and it's getting warmer every day. The ozone layer that protects us from the heat of the sun is gradually damage by the rapid climb of technology. We are facing a problem whose solution hasn’t been found yet. Secondly, air pollution should be taken into account - millions of cars and buses traveling everyday in the minor and major streets of each country, and all of these are producing air pollutants. We have been breathing those harm chemicals that slowly spoil our physical and mental health. Thus in the 21st century, humanity is gradually realizing that global warming is a critical problem which needs to be resolved urgently. Scientists and explorers attempt to research and develop some environmental-friendly products. As we can see, there are some innovations which can help in some way to preserve the environment in the new century. First of all, there are some advances in automobile technology. Due to the shortage of oil, automotive manufacturers tend to produce energy-saving cars such as cars using electricity and natural gas. Secondly, there is a trend to use less paper which made from wood. For instance, programmers have been developed electronic book and Email applications. People can read books and newspapers without printing any papers. To sum up, environmental problems should be handled both by regional and international authorities, as well as by individual organizations and persons. Every single person should take care of environment and moreover he has to bring up his children to be conscious citizens of their planet Earth, because our wellbeing entirely depends on it. Therefore we should always remember that our environment is our life and let us share our very best to protect the mother earth from irreparable harm.