Specialized secondary school N3

Save the World

Teacher:Galandarova.O.O
Pupils:Bazarbayeva.Z Atabayeva.F
 Our planet faces the interconnected crises of rapid climate change
and biodiversity loss. We have years, not decades, to address these
existential threats.
In 2023, a new word was born to describe interacting current and
future risks with potentially catastrophic conequences: polucrisis.
Another word is about to enter our collective dictionaries:
permacrisis. Will this be our fate, or will 2024 be a time for resolution,
resilience and recovery? This is a pivotal moment for global leaders
attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, where
they will develop a long-term strategy to prepare for and respond to
these risks.
What we do between now and 2030 will determine whether we
slow warming to 1.5 Celsius while also conversing enough land and
water to fix biodiversity loss. The good news is there is much that global
leaders can do now to keep the polycrisis from becoming a permacrisis.
Solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss won’t come from
governments, finance, business and civil society. We can achieve a
nature-positive world by 2050 while providing affordable, secure and
inclusive access to energy, food and water.
Here are three ways we need to up-end “business as usual” and act
boldly to advance conservation.
In recent years the number of environmental problems has
increased greatly. One of the most dangerous problems for our planet
is global warming which means that most climates all over the world
are changing and getting warmer. It happens because we burn too
much petrol resources, such as oil and coal, and the Earth heats up.
This process can cause melting of the polar ice and the sea level rising
in the future. If the climate changes there will be floods, heavy storms
or severe droughts in different areas of the world. Cutting down on
exhaust fumes from vehicles could help solve this serious problem.
 We should be proud to live on our wonderful planet and
understand that the consequences of pollution might be terrible and
affect us and our children later. We should start recycling things made
of glass, paper, plastic and aluminium. We should stop smoking and
planet as many trees as we can because they can gine us mre oxygen.
We need to drive less and use public transport in order to reduce fuel
burning. We are responsible for the situation.

Our planet Earth is only a tiny part of the universe, and it is so far the
only place where human beings can live.
We always polluted our surroundings. But until now pollution was
not such a huge problem. People lived in the countryside and couldn’t
produce such amount of pollution that would lead to a dangerous
situation on a global scale.
 With the development of industrial cities, which create huge
amounts of pollutants, the problem has become real. Nowadays our
planet is in serious danger. Global warming, acid rains, air and water
pollution, overpopulation are the problems that threaten human lives
on the Earth.
Every year world industry pollutes the air that we breathe with. A
great number of cities suffer from smog. Rainforests are cut down.
Their disappearance upsets the oxygen balance. As a result, some rare
species of animals, birds, fish and plants are extinct. A lot f seas, rivers
and lakes are filled with poison like industrial and nuclear wastes,
chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The pollution of air and the world’s
ocean, destruction of the ozone layer is the result of man’s careless
interaction with nature, a sign of the ecological crisis.
People should consider their attitude to the environment. Some
progress has already been made in this direction. Numerous
conferences have been held by a lot of agencies to discuss problems
facing ecologically poor region including the Aral Sea, the South Urals,
Kuzbass, Donbass and Chernobyl. Greenpeace is also doing much to
preserve the environment.
What can we do to save the our planet? First of all, people should
switch to alternative forms of power, such as solar power or wind
power. Secondly, the use of atomic power must be banned. Thirdly, we
need to recycle. It’s the art of turning waste into new products. It
would be a good idea if people started riding bicycles instead of driving
cars. We are obliged to protect nature. If everybody cares, it will make
a difference.

Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970, when an estimated 20
million people nationwide attended the inaugural events at tens of
thousands of sites including elementary and secondary schools,
universities, and community sites across the United States. Senator
Gaylord Nelson promoted Earth Day, calling upon students to fight for
environmental degradation with the same energy that they displayed in
opposing the Vietnam War. By the twentieth anniversary of the first
event, more than 200 million people in 141 countries had practicipated
in Earth Day celebrations. The celebrations continue to grow.
 In July 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was
established in response to the growing public demand for cleaner
water,air, and land-its mission to protect the environment and
public health. Earth Day also was the precursor of the largest
grassroots environmental movement in U.S. history and the impetus
for national legislation such as the Clean Air and Clean Water acts.
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the EPA announced new
requirements for improving air quality in national parks and
wilderness areas and establishing regulations requiring more than
90 percent cleaner heavy-duty highway diesel engines and fuel.

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