Nowadays environmental problems are too big to be managed by individual persons or individual countries. In other words, it is an international problem. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays, environmental problems have caused a lot of concern. Some people argue that those problems are too much to be handled by individual people or a single government and it should be an international concern. I think making environmental problems an international responsibility is necessary. People on the earth shared the same
planet
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planet, thus
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they
also
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shared
pollution
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, especially air and water
pollution
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. Air is always moving from one area to another, bring the
pollution
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with it. Air
pollution
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can cause
damage especially
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damage, especially
to human lungs. Greenhouse gasses from any place can cause global warming and it is the most significant cause of ice melting in the northern area.
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, some areas near the beach and small islands might sink due to the increasing
ocean
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water level. If Indonesia, a country with the biggest number of small islands, does everything it can to reduce greenhouse gas production, but other countries keep releasing greenhouse gasses
to
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into
the air. Sooner or later, some island in Indonesia will sink. The earth
also
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shared water
pollution
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in the
ocean
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,
such
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as
garbage
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.
Garbage
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in the
ocean
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can kill marine lives. More and more fish, birds and other animals were found with
garbage
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in their belly. There is a village in Japan that declares themselves zero waste and Japan's government is supporting
zero waste movement
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the zero waste movement
.
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, their oceans still have
garbage
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from people from other countries. People in the world must stop throwing waste into the river and the
ocean
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, for the
ocean
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to be cleared
from
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of
garbage
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.In conclusion, people in the world and all countries have a responsibility to protect the environment. There should be a limited number of
pollution
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and
garbage
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that a country can produce. To achieve that, the government should bring more awareness, educate and control their industry and citizens to reduce environmental damage. If the international community works together for the environment, it can reduce the damage from environmental problems.
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

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Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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  • collective action
  • climate change
  • rising sea levels
  • extreme weather events
  • biodiversity loss
  • ecosystems
  • Convention on Biological Diversity
  • significant improvements
  • sovereignty
  • environmental policies
  • international collaboration
  • environmental degradation
  • shared responsibility
  • technological advances
  • innovative solutions
  • international cooperation
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