More and more people buy and use their own car. Do you think the advantages of this trend for individuals overweigh the disadvantages for environment?

As the economy constantly develops, there are increasing numbers of households owning private

cars

.

This

trend has raised the debate about whether the merits of the trend overweight its potential disadvantages. From my perspective, though with many advantages, damages brought about by

this

trend cannot compensate for its harm to the environment. Before setting out private

cars

' problems, I have to confess that the popularisation of private

cars

does bring many conveniences to ordinary people. For illustration, my mother once recalled that when I was an infant and suffered from a fever, she had to send me to the hospital by bicycle with the risk of falling into channels. In clear contrast with

this

, my elder sister drives her son to the hospital without having to worry about

such

danger.

Nevertheless

, as public transport systems develop increasingly sophisticatedly and humanistically, safety and convenience are no longer exclusive to private

cars

.

Therefore

, there are not as many reasons as twenty years ago when speaking about private

cars

. In

this

circumstance, private

cars

' damage to the environment is becoming unacceptable.

For example

, the UN has long enlisted car waste as one of the primary causes of global warming, which is threatening both our and our posterity's happiness, or even survival. Recent extreme climates across the world,

such

as the flood in China, and the aridity in Sudan have awakened people to these kinds of risks. To summarise, admittedly private

cars

as a successful industrial product have brought us many conveniences, but with the looming of climate change, I personally do not consider it indispensable. Private

cars

' harm to the environment has outweighed their advantages, and

hence

we had better turn to public transport systems.