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

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car appeared on British roads in 1888, the

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of vehicles continuously increased and reached to 29

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by 2000. Higher

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of vehicles brought concerns

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of

for

about

the

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and some people suggested to

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alternative

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forms of

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and introduce new international laws to control car ownership and

use

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.

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, there are

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

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forms of

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. On the one hand, environmental concerns

have been growing

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have grown

since the

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

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gases

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

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

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would be damaged and could not be recovered permanently if

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current trend continues.

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, those vehicles

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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.

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acid rain can

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pollute natural

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

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

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50 years.

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, there are suggestions that

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forms of

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should be encouraged and replace those personal vehicles.

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, they believe that public

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

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a significant number

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of passengers to travel at once.

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, trains

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electricity to operate so that they will not produce

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gases and help to improve our

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.

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, reducing

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number

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the number

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

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alternative

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forms

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of their own cars.

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, there is

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a strong opposition to those opinions.

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The current system

Current systems

of the public

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

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than by their own cars. Today, buses

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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

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gases as well.

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

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is extremely weak to prevent spreading

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

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

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,

those

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these

laws can

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

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could

result companies

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result, companies

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

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some people that work by using their own vehicles

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as taxi drivers and deliverymen.

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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

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forms of

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

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for the

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generations. There is

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

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

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environment

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the environment

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

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gases should be continued.