Some people say that the main environmental problem of our time is the loss of particular species of plants and animals. Others say that there are more important environmental problems. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

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Many people still argue about environmental
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and think that there are more significant issues than the loss of particular species of plants and animals. Every problem, which is connected
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the environment is important and needs a solution, but the loss of wildlife is not the only one. Millions of years the flora and fauna of the Earth planet evolved from nothing to today’s phase. Many moments in history have led to these changes and now something similar is happening with the environment. If in past, climate or catastrophe were reasons
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environmental
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nowadays human actions are causing all of them. Nature is used to renewing itself, but with the development of human needs, it can’t keep up to hide their hunger. The reason why the animal and plants species are decreasing from year to year is that humanity is killing them for every need. Meal, clothes, medicine, industry are examples of where all these natural resources go. Everyone can agree that at
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rate, there will be nothing left in the future. Everything in
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world is connected by an invisible thread, and their disappearance will become an end for humanity. The loss of plants and animal species is the whole environmental problem since it is the aftermath of many actions. One of them is climate change which is the main source of
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. Due to changes in climate, there are many natural disasters are being happened.
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, now the weather in the North Pole becomes higher, in Australia forests are burning.
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of these catastrophes, animals lose their habitant place and almost die out. The opposite of all
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, the unprecedented cold comes on the warmest areas of the earth, which in turn leads to interspecific wars. In any case, only nature suffers and all
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happens through the fault of humanity. Only people can fix what he has done and find a solution to all
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • biodiversity
  • extinction
  • habitat loss
  • ecosystem
  • food chain
  • imbalance
  • interconnected
  • climate change
  • pollution
  • personal actions
  • policy changes
  • education
  • awareness
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