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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of natural habitats, in part due to intensive agriculture and industrial-scale mining in some parts of the world, as well as urbanisation, has put the survival of many

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of plants and animals under threat. While

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is certainly a major concern, is

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the most pressing environmental problem that we should deal with? I certainly feel that humanity has a moral obligation to safeguard the survival of different

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of fauna and flora. The

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of any

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is permanent and means that future generations will not be able to appreciate the wonders of a diverse natural world.

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, the tragic extinction of the dodo is something which we still lament even today.

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, it can affect us detrimentally too. Many herbal remedies are derived from plants, and so the destruction of rainforests could easily have a negative effect on the production of medicinal drugs.

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, we are part of a natural food chain, so the

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of animals,

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as fish, means we will have less food in the future. Ultimately though, there is a far wider problem that needs to be addressed: global warming.

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of emissions of greenhouse gases,

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as CO2 and methane, global temperatures are rising and we risk seeing runaway heating.

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will lead to a number of problems, including flooding, extreme weather and drought, but

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the extinction of

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. Indeed, polar bears are already struggling to survive because of the

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of polar ice caps due to rising temperatures.

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, working to safeguard the survival of the natural world without tackling global warming would be entirely ineffective, so it’s not really a case of which one is more important: all environmental issues are ultimately interconnected, and so we need to take a holistic approach to the issue.