Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed (damaged) by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Some people say that humans are too weak to harm the
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. But scientists believe that, human activity has a crucial impact on our environment. I think that human beings have the most negative effect on the planet
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as climate change and consumption of
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's natural resources.
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of all, during the
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century, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased due to the industrialization of many things,
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as transportation or production in the factory. When sunlight reaches the
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, it provides some of the energy that the
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needs, and the rest of it is going out of the atmosphere to the space, which is called an energy balance. When particles
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as CO2 get increased and collected in our atmosphere, they capture more light which leads to an energy imbalance and making the
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warmer.
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phenomenon is called global warming.
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, humans are the major cause of
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issue. Global warming is the biggest threat to human and the
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causing ice to melt, rising sea levels, and
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abnormal weather conditions, including severe flood and drought. As the population grows, humans have to build more houses and consume more food, which lead to the deforestation and extinction of many species of animals. Forests help to provide the oxygen that we can breathe. Humans cut more trees to have more wood in order to build houses and produce the paper. They
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need more land, where they can grow and harvest food products, so they began destroying forests. Deforestation is one of human activities that hurt our environment. Nowadays, eighty percent of the nature area in my country has been destroyed by human activities during
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last fifty years
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the last fifty years
. Many animals go extinct due to overhunting.
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, excessive hunting for meat, fat and skin have helped significantly reduce polar bears; Or humans have hunted crocodiles for their valuable skins used to make shoes, belts, bags, etc.
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, if people distances themselves from nature, it can recover itself,
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, humans evacuated Chernobyl,
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, after 30 years, the area has become a forest. In a nutshell, we reach the conclusion that human activities not only is a cause of the global warming, but it
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destroys and depletes the
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's resources
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as forests and animals. In general, humans have had a direct impact on the
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.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • industrialization
  • deforestation
  • carbon emissions
  • climate change
  • biodiversity
  • pollution
  • renewable energy
  • reforestation
  • protected areas
  • wildlife reserves
  • sustainable practices
  • circular economy
  • clean energy
  • green technology
  • Paris Agreement
  • net-zero targets
  • ecological damage
  • sustainable agriculture
  • urban cooling effects
  • Great Pacific Garbage Patch
  • Aral Sea restoration
  • vertical gardens
  • green roofs
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