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

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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

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and whether individual

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

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damage

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

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, businesses and governments

would go a long way towards preventing

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

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disaster. Proponents of

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view claim that individual

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

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

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combined with governmental and business

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will do a lot more to prevent

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

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

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

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we would be giving the problem of

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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.