The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year 2000 there may be as many as 29 million vehicles on British roads. Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and international laws introduced to control car ownership and use. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

Since the

first

car appeared on British roads in 1888, the

number

of vehicles continuously increased and reached to 29

millions

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million

by 2000. Higher

number

of vehicles brought concerns

on

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of

for

about

the

environment

and some people suggested to

use

alternative

forms of

transport

and introduce new international laws to control car ownership and

use

.

However

, there are

also

oppositions to those ideas due to fears of restricting freedom to have private properties and questions to those

alternative

forms of

transport

. On the one hand, environmental concerns

have been growing

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have grown

since the

number

of vehicles exponentially rose. Currently, vehicles produce a variety of

greenhouse

gases

such

as carbon dioxide and methane gas. Those gases can contribute to the global warming by

greenhouse

effects. Due to the global warming, the average temperature of the Earth has constantly increased and the experts have predicted that

environment

would be damaged and could not be recovered permanently if

this

current trend continues.

In addition

, those vehicles

also

release

sulfur

an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)

sulphur

dioxide, which occurs acid rain that can damage modern buildings.

This

acid rain can

also

pollute natural

environment

like ponds and rivers that the pH of those places decreases, which results organisms could not survive those acidic conditions.

Moreover

, modern vehicles consume oil, which is one of the finite resources. Scientists currently estimated that those would run out within the

next

50 years.

As a result

, there are suggestions that

alternative

forms of

transport

should be encouraged and replace those personal vehicles.

Initially

, they believe that public

transport

such

as buses, trains and trams can contribute to replace those private vehicles as those can allow

significant

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a significant number

number

of passengers to travel at once.

Moreover

, trains

use

electricity to operate so that they will not produce

greenhouse

gases and help to improve our

environment

.

Furthermore

, reducing

number

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the number

of vehicles can help to ease constant traffic jams in urban areas as workers will

use

alternative

forms

instead

of their own cars.

Nevertheless

, there is

also

a strong opposition to those opinions.

Current system

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The current system

Current systems

of the public

transport

has been criticised that it is not as effective as personal cars that commuters generally take longer to travel by the public

transport

than by their own cars. Today, buses

also

consume finite resources, which are mainly oil and natural gas. Trains are operated by electricity, which is mainly produced by burning those finite resources that produce

greenhouse

gases as well.

Furthermore

, a recent situation of COVID-19 revealed that the public

transport

is extremely weak to prevent spreading

this

coronavirus

since passengers could not keep social distancing. Most citizens are currently against those ideas to launch international laws to restrict the

number

of car ownerships. They believe that those laws will infringe our liberations to own properties.

In addition

,

those

plural of "this"

these

laws can

also

damage current markers of vehicles as fewer people will be affordable to purchase new cars.

This

could

result companies

Accept comma addition

result, companies

to reduce the operations of their factories, which could proceed to the job reductions. There are

also

some people that work by using their own vehicles

such

as taxi drivers and deliverymen.

Recent situation

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The recent situation

of COVID-19 revealed that those

deliverymen

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delivery men

are crucial that they deliver essential products to vulnerable people who cannot leave their houses. In conclusion, I definitely agree that those

alternative

forms of

transport

should be encouraged as I believe that each person has a responsibility to protect our

environment

for the

next

generations. There is

also

an evidence that each commuter travelled by buses or trains produces significantly less carbon footprint than those who travelled by their own cars.

However

, I strongly disagree with bringing those laws because there are more disadvantages like job reductions than advantages like easing traffic jams and improving

environment

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the environment

. I

also

suggest that the investigation on inventing new vehicles that do not produce any

greenhouse

gases should be continued.