Some people think that there are things individuals can do to help prevent global climate change. Others believe that action by individuals is useless and irrelevant and that it is only governments and large businesses which can make a difference. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Climate

change

is a phenomenon affecting all people in all walks of life, from individual citizens to whole countries and huge multinational companies. The question of what we can do to prevent global

climate

change

and whether individual

action

is effective or not is a hotly debated issue. There are those who say that the majority of the

damages

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damage

is wrought by big businesses. By imposing restrictions on emissions and by strictly monitoring waste disposal from factories, plants

and businesses, governments

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, businesses and governments

would go a long way towards preventing

climate

change

. It is thought that governments around the world should come up with solutions to help prevent imminent

environment

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environmental

disaster. Proponents of

this

view claim that individual

action

is irrelevant in the face of massive, wide-scale prevention policies set and controlled by governments.

On the other hand

, there are a growing number of people who believe that individual

action

combined with governmental and business

action

will do a lot more to prevent

climate

change

than if individual citizens were not involved. In a world of six billion people, if everyone thought about the

number

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amount

of water they use, how they dispose of their rubbish, whether or

not something

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not, something

needs to be thrown away or if they can, in fact, re-use certain items

then

we would be giving the problem of

climate

change

and its prevention a massive boost. Taking both points into consideration, I firmly believe that individual citizens cannot sit back and say it is someone else’s responsibility to protect the environments; we must all play our part-individual citizens, governments and big businesses alike.