Nowadays we can hear a lot of information about environmental pollution. The news informs us about deforestation, greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer. Every one of us can do something to make our environment cleaner and healthier.
Fist of all, we should save the electricity. If you leave your room, you should turn the light off, because it also contaminates the environment. Factories and power plants emit a lot of fumes and harmful gases, for example carbon dioxide which pollutes the atmosphere.
Secondly, we should resign driving car to work. It would be better for human lungs. Instead of driving cars everyday, which polluted the air with toxic fumes, we should commute to work with buses, trains or underground. The more ecological alternative is riding a bicycle to work. It would be much healthier.
Then we should collect our rubbish before throwing it away. They should be put to special containers and then recycled. It is better to buy some environmental friendly products and avoid product which are wrapped with too many packaging. Buying drinks in returnable packaging, for example glass bottles, is also a good idea. To the biggest problem of modern world belong the holes in the ozone layer. It means that in some places the layer is thinner. The holes are caused by CFC's - chemical substances used in sprays and emitted by some old type of refrigerators. To avoid the holes in the ozone layer we should use products marked 'ozone-friendly', which protect the layer.
The other problem is cutting down the rain forests. It doesn't concern us in significant degree, but it affects the global ecosystem. The rain forests in South America are known as the lungs of the Earth. Trees absorb the carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. We should stop the wooden cuts, because it may cause the global warming. Its consequences will be destructive for the whole our world. It is better to use recycled paper and we should plant a lot of trees. Every one of us should plant a tree during the life!
People should be encouraged to protect the environment. We shouldn't neglect the environmental problems, because the situation will be getting worse in the next years. We can't be so short sighted and we should think about our future. We should do something to make our lives on the Earth better.
