As countries develop, more and more people buy and use their own cars. Do the advantages of this trend for individuals outweigh the disadvantages for the environment?

In
modern era
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the modern era
, cars play an important role in daily activities. There are an enhancing number of own cars for
comfortable life
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a comfortable life
in many nations. It is one of the inventions that makes
humans
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human
human's
life much easier, meanwhile it has
it's
of a thing, of it; possessive form of "it"
its
own drawbacks as well.
This
essay will elucidate both pros and cons of
this
trend. One of the key
reason
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reasons
is that people are living in the world where they are praised for their high living standards. So, they use luxurious cars to travel even
upto
walkable
distances, just to show- off. In a recent study, conducted in India shows that many
Indian
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Indians
have their own individual cars for each member in a family.Beside public
means
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means, for
for
example buses
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example, buses
take
huge amount
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a huge amount
of
time
to reach at the destination because it stops at different stoppage for passengers. In order to save
time
, people travel by their own cars. They
donot
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do not
need to worry about the
particulars
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particular
times of public transports and freely move at any
time
according to
there
of them or themselves
their
convenient
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convenience
conveniences
. On the other side, traffic congestion and air pollution increases by increase in the number of own vehicles. Most of the roads are overcrowded due to
huge number
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the huge number
a huge number
of cars running around the clock which release harmful fumes in
air
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the air
and on inhalation of
such
formidable gases causes various breathing problems
such
as asthma and
eyes
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eye
irritation.
In addition
to
this
, most of the
time
roads are blocked due to parking of cars haphazardly which causes inconvenience to the commuters. So
this
problems
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problem
increases day by day as private cars increases on roads. To sum up, having a car gives someone freedom and standard of
living but
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living, but
traffic congestion and pollution are major problems faced by almost all the countries around the world.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • personal mobility
  • convenience
  • commuting
  • quality of life
  • personalized space
  • carbon emissions
  • global warming
  • air pollution
  • traffic congestion
  • environmental degradation
  • resource depletion
  • electric vehicles
  • carpooling
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