Some think that private companies should pay for cleaning up pollution, while others say it is the government’s responsibility. Discuss and state your own opinion.

Pollution causes many problems to the environment. It makes the air difficult to breathe
and water unable to
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water and unable to
support life. Some people think that it is the
government
that should be responsible for cleaning up polluted areas while others think it is the job of private companies.
This
essay will look at both sides and
then
try to reach a conclusion. On one side, private companies cause most pollution, so it seems fair that they should have to clean it up. Many companies make large amounts of money by ignoring laws about pollution and dumping waste in rivers or pumping it into the air. Some of their profits should definitely be used to pay to clean up the places they pollute.
However
, it is the
government
’s job to make sure that laws are followed, so they should be responsible
to
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for
. In many countries,
government
officials take money from company bosses in exchange for not making them follow anti-pollution laws.
For example
, in my country, a company polluted a massive area of the coast and killed many fish, but they just paid the
government
officials and no one was punished, except for the local fishermen who had no way to make a living anymore. If the laws are already there, they just need to be followed, so the
government
must try to avoid corruption and forced companies to follow the law or be punished. Overall, I think that private companies should be the ones who clean up polluted areas because they are the ones who pollute them.
However
, they normally will not do
this
by themselves, so the
government
must do its job and force companies to respect the environment or be treated like criminals.
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