Unfortunately, we don`t live in ecologically safe place. Large cities with thousands of smoky industrial enterprises pollute the air we breathe and the water we drink. Every year world industry pollutes the atmosphere with about 1 billion tons of dust and other harmful substances. Many cities suffer from smog. Beautiful old forests disappear. Their disappearance upsets the oxygen balance. As a result some rare species of animals, birds, fish and plants disappear forever, a number of lakes and rivers dry up.
But it’s not too late to solve these problems. We have the time, the money and even the technology to make our planet a better, cleaner and safer place. We can plant trees and create parks for endangered animals. We can recycle our wastes, persuade entrepreneurs to stop polluting activities, because it is evident that they destroy our planet.
People should be taught to collect, recycle and utilize wastes. Containers for glass, paper and plastic bottles must be put in the parks and streets of our towns. The work of scrap-heaps should be organized better. People mustn`t leave the litter after their picnics, burn fires in parks and forests, cut down or break young trees, wash cars in lakes and rivers. Today it is now more than ever evident that at the same time we are destroying our bodies and our future.
As for me, I take part in «clean-up days» in our school, I don`t litter outdoors and don`t burn fires in parks. Sometimes I feed birds in winter.
