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.

The chart represents information about the number of exports in a country in five different categories in the years 2015 and 2016, while the table illustrates the proportion of the
export
changes in all categories in 2016. Overall, it can be clearly seen that the highest exported
products
in 2015
was
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petroleum and the least
export
number was
textiles
.
However
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textiles
showed the most significant increase in
export
in 2016 compared to four other
products
. Petroleum was exported about $60
billion
in 2015 while was
textiles
around $28
billion
only.
Nevertheless
,
export
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of
textiles
saw a significant rise by 15.24% to almost 32
billion
in the
next
year, whereas
export
of petroleum
products
only inclined by about $10
billion
in a year. The number of
export
in engineered goods experienced an increase by 8.5% from $57
billion
to approximately $61
billion
between 2015 and 2016. While the agricultural
products
that
exported
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to other countries remained stable at around $32
billion
in the year 2015 and 2016, Germ and jewellery showed a slight decrease by 5%.

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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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