Most people do not care enough about environmental issues. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Recently, under the effect of globalisation, the phenomenon of environmental issues has aroused wide concerns among various circles. Divergent as peoples' views on

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public awareness of

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environmental issues is not enough. Of all the reasons why not enough attention has been drawn to the environmental problems, probably the most significant one is the prevalence of the consumer culture. Companies encourage customers to keep abreast of their latest trends, so people will keep purchasing luxury goods in a bid to fulfil their vanity.

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commercial products, non-biodegradable plastic bags are used extensively for packaging. At the end of the day, not only the plastic wastes thrown for increasing the landfills burden

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but

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the emission

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of toxic gases

such

as methane gas will

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occur to cause air pollution. Despite the aforementioned negative consequences caused by over-consumption of plastic wastes, never should we overlook the fact that tourism is one of the main culprits aggravating environmental pollution. In metropolitan cities, tourism has been an effective way to boost the economy. A wide range of services can be financially boosted, ranging from infrastructure,

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to

accomodation

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accommodation

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Although

it can inevitably increase the gross domestic product, GDP, of the cities, it

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brings about several environmental problems to the society,

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, railway or building construction will cause air and sound pollution

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the neighbourhoods, and initiating the reclamation project would destroy the marine wildlife habitats and

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the marine diversity would decrease. To summarise, due to the increase in population, different human activities are undoubtedly attributed to the catastrophic environmental consequences. It is

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of paramount importance that the public should start aware of the issues and take action to alleviate the potential problems.