To What Extent Are Individuals Have Responsibility To Protect Environment

In the past a long history, people have a significant growth in economy and transform the environment. At the same time, ecology destruction and pollution of environment has constituted a great threat on the development of human environment. The government has the major duty to take some methods to make the surrounding better. This essay will argue that protecting environment is not only the responsibility of individuals but also of government.

In the past few decades，human being caused a serious pollution to environment because of their development and innovation. According to Pruss-Üstün and Corvalán (2006), World Health Organization studies have examined the summation disease burden owing to key environmental risks globally and regionally, quantifying that there are various factors that could negatively contribute to the number of death and disease such as water pollution, sanitation and indoor and outdoor air pollution. In the contemporary society, vehicle plays a vital role in the daily life, but at the same time some transport will release sulphur dioxide and hazardous gases into the air. There are many places in the earth where a lot of air pollutant emissions from vehicles including carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), volatile organic compounds (VOCs) or hydrocarbons (HCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter (PM) will cause global warming and acid rain (Zhang& Batterman, 2013: 307). In addition, water pollution is also harmful for the safety of human-beings and balance of the nature. More than one billion people nearly 1/5 of the population lack safe drinking water, forty percent people lack basic sanitation facilities (West, 2006). The cause of this situation due to many factor, but most of all is because of the human activities water pollution from many factor by human behavior such as mining, manufacturing, agriculture, power production, and urban run-off and suburban sprawl (Zeliger, 2008). More and more man-made pollution

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