保护 环境 英文文章
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Protecting the Environment-保护环境
Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the orld. For example, cars have made the air unhealthy for people to breathe and poisonous gas is given off by factories. Trees on the hills have been cut do n and aste ater is being poured continuously into rivers.Furthermore, herever e go today, e can find rubbish carelessly disposed. Pollution is, in fact, threatening our existence.
The earth is our home and e have the duty to take care of it for ourselves and for our later generations. Fortunately, more and more people have realized these problems. Measures have been taken to cope ith these problems by the government. La s have been passed to stop pollution. I hope the problem ill be solved in the near future and our home ill become better and better.
全世界的环境问题变得越来越严重。例如汽车污染的空气影响了人们的呼吸，工厂释放污染的气体，山上的树木被砍伐，污水不断被排人河里。另外，无论我们走到哪里，到处可见随意丢弃的垃圾。事实上，污染正威胁我们的生存。
地球是我们的家园，我们有责任为我们自己和我们的后代去照顾好它。庆幸的是，愈来愈多的人们已经意识到这些问题。政府已经采取了很多措施去解决这些问题，法律已被通过以制止污染。我希望这些问题在不远的将来能得到解决，我们的家园变得越来越好。
Environmental problems are becoming more and more serious all over the orld. With the development of industry and agriculture, cars make great noises and give off poisonous gas. Trees on the hills have been cut do n,and aste ater is being poured continuously into rivers. Furthermore, herever e go today, e can find rubbish carelessly disposed. The hole ecological balance of the earth is changing. Massive destruction of environment has brought about negative effects and even poses a great threat to man's existence.
We must face the situation that exists and take actions to solve our environmental problems. For instance, ne la s must be passed to place strict control over industrial pollution, the pub!ic must receive the education about the hazard of pollution and so on. We hope that all these measures ill be effective and bring back a healthful environment.
全世界的环境问题在变得越来越严重。随着工农业的发展，汽车制造噪音、排放毒气，山上的树木被砍伐，污水不断被排入河里。另外，无论我们走到哪里，到处可见随意丢弃的垃圾。整个地球生态平衡正在改变，环境的巨大破坏已带来负面影响，甚至对人类生存带来巨大威胁。
我们必须面对现实，采取行动解决环境问题。例如必须通过新的法律严格控制工业污染问题，大众必须接受污染危害的教育等。我们希望这些措施的有效实施能带给我们一个健康的环境。
Environmental Protection
What are we going to do about environmental protection? We just have nothing to do, since we are not the major characters to cause the problem, someone may claim. Yet I still want to tell you that there is something we can do.
I read a magazine recently and discovered an article, whose writer gives out the detail information of what we can do to relieve the environmental pollutions.
Here I will introduce some to you. First, two centigrade lower in winter and two higher in summer. The air-conditioner has a great matter on the greenhouse effect, so please do it in your reach. Second, never keep your TV set or computer awaiting so that you can save 40% of the extra energy. Third, keep your refrigerator away from the stoves or something like that. It will cost more electricity to cooling down stuffs if it is located near a heat. Forth, you should eat less beef, eat more vegetables and change beef to pork. Cows are the animals exhausting the largest amount of firedamp (CH4), which is also one of the causes of greenhouse effect. And finally, what a common person can do is to tell others about this information, and I think it will be an easy job for everyone to do this.
Yes, we have more to do, and before we can do more, we’d better do a little first. Do not be indifferent with environment protection! You are the right savior!
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这么多塑料袋是哪儿来的?来自每天络绎不绝的游客!我们人类天天在呼唤保护野生珍稀动物，却又在不知不觉中残害屠杀它们。这是多么矛盾啊!然而这就是现实。
其实，这种矛盾现象在生活中是大量存在的。我们一方面都在埋怨环境被污染，可是我们自己又何尝不是在污染环境呢!比如，我们一方面在大声疾呼抽烟有害健康，而另一方面又在大批量地生产和销售香烟。我们一方面大力提倡不乱丢垃圾，另一方面我们在吃棒冰时往往随便地将包装纸扔在地上。又比如，有些厂的老板把厂房装饰得美丽豪华，可是背地里却把污水、废水偷偷地源源不断地往河里排放……所以，尽管我们天天在宣传环境意识，可是污染环境，危害生物的现象仍然屡禁不止。
为什么会有这么多矛盾现象呢?我认为，关键在于很多人没有重视环境保护。埋怨别人污染了环境，恰恰忘记了自己也在污染环境!所以在宣传保护环境时，还要加上“从我做起!”这后半句。使环保意识真正在我们每个人的头脑里扎下根，使我们的所作所为时刻都在考虑保护环境。
但愿可怜的长颈鹿不再无辜地病死，但愿它的死能唤醒我们许多人的良知!
2.保护环境
“我想有个家，我想有个家，我想有个家……家！在哪儿呢？？？”这是增城电视台〈〈公益〉〉栏目中播出的动画片，一对无家可归的可怜小鸟所说的一句话。就这一句话使我陷入了深深的沉思：保护环境，人人有责！
环境是大自然赐给我们的宝贵财富，我们应该珍惜它们。植物是大自然的天然屏障；动物是人类的朋友；臭氧层是大地的保护伞；淡水是我们的生命之泉。不过人们总是把环保挂在嘴边，而没有采取保护行动，人们要知道：环保重在实际啊！
一棵树每天能吸收大量的二氧化碳和其它的有害气体，放出同样多的氧气，可供一个工厂的人一天的呼吸。而花草可吸取噪音，如果栽一片花草坪的话，那就可以大大降低噪音的污染了。由此可见，植物对人类是多么重要。可是有些人却还不知道这些，每当我看见草坪被那些人践踏，爱护花草的标语牌被踢倒，我的心就像刀割似的，难受极了。如果失去了花草树木，我真不敢想象世界将变成什么样子！我三年级时学过《一个小村庄》这篇课文，讲的是一个美丽的小村庄，因为人们过度砍伐树木，使得大地裸露，大水冲没了村庄。这是多么可怕的事情啊！难道还能让这种事情再发生在我们城市中吗？
动物是人类的朋友，是社会的财富，我们应当珍惜它们。我从〈〈岭南少年报〉〉和〈〈现代小学生报〉〉中知道：美洲猎豹已长离世间；猛马象早已丧命冰河；剑齿虎早就灭绝；欧洲大雷鸟接近灭绝；鲸类正苟延残喘；非洲象被逼在绝种深渊边。从现在开始，从我做起，少吃野生动物，阻止捕猎者猎取动物。记得2003年SARS蔓延，都是因为人们吃果子狸，由冠状病毒变异而引起非典。
我从网上获得臭氧层被称为大地的保护伞，因为它可以挡住大部分紫外线，如果没有臭氧层的话，一刹那，大地将尽被烤焦。因为人们大量使用化学药品，南极上空已露出了个大洞。
淡水也非常宝贵，据电视新闻报道：全球百分之七十的水属于盐水，这种水不可饮用。据统计：三个人之中，就会有一人缺水，何况现在也没有发明出盐水转化机。水流声“哗哗”一定是有人没有拧紧水龙头，节约用水只是挂在嘴边，根本没有人记住，那些不自觉的人洗完手之后，不关紧水龙头，让那些淡水白白流走。
总而言之，保护环境，再不能挂在嘴边，要重在实际行动。大家要用我们的双手保护我们这个美丽而又脆弱的地球。
保护环境
“那天我穿上正装早早出门，因为我要应选环保局局长，这对我来说无疑是一个很好的工作机会。
“台上的同事一个讲得比一个精彩，马上就要到我了，我不免紧张起来。打开包，我准备拿出演讲稿，结果将包里里外外翻了一遍又一遍——糟了！我又将演讲稿忘在家里了，下一个就是我演讲，我只好硬着头皮走上台。
“刚上台，我的脑里就一片空白，那篇演讲稿可是集我才华于一张啊！忽然我想到什么，说出口：‘从小，我就看过许多环境新闻，看到了许多关于环境污染的事例。变脏了的河水，裸露的山坡，中毒而死的鱼儿，沿着海岸环绕，宽整整有一米……看到那些惨不忍睹画面，我不禁心惊胆战，仿佛听到那些生物的哭诉，而人类就是制造者！
“‘我小时候在农村生活，还记得村里有条小河，河水清澈建娣，有许多小鱼和青蛙等等，那曾是我和小伙伴娱乐的天堂，可几年后，我发现那条小河不见了。在那同样的地方，却出现了一条“黑河“，奶奶叹息着说，那是村里人不爱惜小河的后果！于是环境污染的重要性在我幼小的心灵里扎根了。
“‘这种现象不在少数，曾经的山清水秀，如今的臭气熏天，这就是人们的“杰作”啊。人们用各种方法，污染了我们美丽的家园，破坏了我们千年的摇篮！我听过这样一句话：人类继续破坏环境，终究有一天会受到严厉的惩罚。那一天已经快来了，泥石流、台风、森林火灾……受害的不是人类吗？治理污染是我们环保工作者的人物，使大自然焕然一新使我们的目标，我们有责任、有能力去挑起这个重担！
“‘无论今天我是否成功，我仍想渴望清水的鱼儿，渴望绿色的土地，渴望蓝天的白云一样，渴望我们的环境变美、变净、变绿！
当我说出谢谢的时候，耳边的掌声早已淹没一切。但我仍真心感谢我的坏记性，让我有机会说出自己的真心话，说出每一位环保工作者的心声。就像我说的一样，我不一定要当上局长，但一定要帮助大家拥有一个好环境，这是我最大的心愿。
“谢谢您接受我们的采访。谢谢”那位女记者笑着和我握了握手。终于做完采访，我松了一口气。我已经是环保局局长了，但我仍记得那次毕生难忘的演讲，以及我对保护环境的决心。
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保护环境 从我做起
地球是我们的家园,我们人类应该保护地球。可是如今,由于经济利益的吸引,人们不顾一切地开采地球上的宝贵资源，违背自然规律，破坏生态平衡，我们已经不断遭受来自大自然的惩罚。
今年3月，我看了一个电视专题片《沙尘暴》，讲述了我国西部甘肃武威1995年5月5日遭受到百年不遇的强烈黑风暴的袭击，造成巨大损失，大面积农田绝收，基础设施遭到严重破坏，人员伤亡惨重。其中有15名小学生在放学路上被风卷入水渠中冲走。近几天，我又看到报道，甘肃民勤县也遭受了与1995年武威黑风暴同样的厄运。
这两件事给我们人类敲响了警钟，我们再也不能迟疑了。全人类应该立即行动起来，保护我们的家园，再也不要出现在武威、民勤的这种危害人类的事发生。
作为一名小学生，我们怎样才能保护我们的家园呢？我认为，要从小事做起，从我做起。
首先，保护我们周围的环境，讲究卫生，不乱扔废弃物，不乱倒垃圾，爱护花草树木，保持校园环境干净整洁。
其次，保护我们周围的环境，建立“绿色环保”少年岗，植树造林，控制土地沙漠化，扩大绿地面积。
再次，制止滥砍滥伐，保护植被，防风固沙，保护野生动物，合理开发利用水资源。
只有每个人都齐心协力，齐抓共管，才能使明天的家园，变得更加美丽。
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走近绿色
绿色是时尚的代名词，绿色是树之名，绿色是小溪的欢歌，绿色是花儿的枝叶，绿色象征着生机。假如没有绿色，世界就失去了生机，一切就变得黯淡。
树，人类的朋友，它奉献氧气吸入二氧化碳，为人类净化空气，为人类抵御沙化、风尘、赤潮。但是，人们报答它的是什么？滥砍滥伐。你们知道吗？中国森林面积只有15．8亿公顷，森林覆盖率也只有16．5％。
地球森林覆盖率已经下降了20％—30％，如果再不加以节制，人类将失去这个朋友，那时，人们醒悟会不会太迟了？
人类，地球的“破坏者”，动物，人类的伙伴，为什么动物濒临灭绝？因为偷猎。树木，动物的家园，失去家园，动物何处容身？
湿地，在中国已经遭到破坏，盲目地围垦、掠夺开发、污染加剧、过度利用等因素，全国三分之一的天然湿地面临被改变、丧失的危险。导致生态环境失去平衡。工厂大量地排出废气、废水、废物，使环境质量恶化。
地球资源本来可以再生，可人类却滥用化学品，致使本来再生的资源不能再生。
关心地球就是关心我们的家园，保护资源就是保护我们生存发展的基础。我们一定要善待地球，保护资源，真正走一条生产发展、生活富裕、生态良好的文明发展道路。地球只有一个，她是人类赖以生存的美丽家园。善待地球，保护地球，保护资源环境，就是保护我们自己，同时也为我们子孙后代留下美好的家园。
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捍 卫 小 草
是谁在泥泞的日子里最初给人们带来春的消息？又是谁为人类定格一方绿色晴空？是小草——一个最平凡而又最伟大的绿色战士。
小草没有花儿妩媚多姿；没有露珠那样晶莹剔透；没有雪花那样洁白如玉。它有的只是傲视狂风暴雨的勇气和扎根泥层的奉献精神。
当春姑娘姗姗来迟的时候，万紫千红的花儿园中翘首；深树中的黄鹂无羁高歌……而人们却忘了绿遍山野的小草。它默默无闻地站在绿化建设的第一线，没有树高，没有花香。手挽手，迎风而立，为大地铺成一条无边无际的绿毯。一棵棵小草，是一个绿色精灵，心甘情愿地任人民临身而踏，不发一句呻吟，不作一点抱怨。漫漫长夜里，不求了解；未知日子里，不求回报，它只是在墙角呼唤着人类那颗已昏睡的心：请给天空一片蔚蓝；请给夏夜一阵蛙鸣；请给森林一曲鸟歌吧……
捍卫小草，给饱受践踏的草儿一块平安地，给饱受烈日的小草一地雨水。让鸟儿的歌声为小草作伴，让鱼儿的龙门之舞为小草喝彩！
狂风暴雨来袭时，小草就像是在为大地而歌，为天空而舞。暴风显然是来者不善，它还痴心妄想将草儿连根拔起。其实纤身细腰的小草早已在这场生死搏斗前备战已久；因为它时刻牢记着大地交给它的绿色任务。小草迎着风雨，忽而昂首挺胸，忽而摇摇摆摆，有如醉酒欢歌，随即大地上奏演了一场“劲草斗疾风”的赞歌。狂风暴雨退步而下，甘拜下风。雨后彩虹焕发七彩光芒把小草身上的“珍珠”折射得更加璀璨……
小草的生命虽然风雨重重，但它，仍义无返顾地为人类制造绿的清新，我们又有什么理由不去捍卫这样一个伟大而又无私的绿色生命呢？
捍卫小草！让秋天的大地依旧生机勃勃，让蜂影蝶姿为小草装饰，和风细雨为小草飘扬。让我们在时间与空间的地域建立起一座不灭的绿桥。
捍卫小草！让整个生命的原野都奏起绿色羌笛，来呼唤那已逝去的灵魂，让那被利益所羁绊得戛然而止的脚步步调一致，共同开发一条新绿之路！
捍卫小草！让我们携起手来，撒出更多的绿芽儿，融化干涸的大漠，开始我们最伟大的绿色征途。
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绿 色 的 梦
我该怎样来形容你的那种精神呢？
假如我是歌星，我要颂一首婉转的歌曲来赞美你默默无私的奉献。
假如我是画家，我要用各种斑斓的色彩来描绘你忘我工作的神态。
假如我是雕刻家，我要在精致的玉石上刻画你铿锵的信念。
然而我什么都不是，只能用自己几句贫乏的文字来描绘你。
在一个春风掠人的日子里，你来了，悄悄地来了，无声无息地用汗水滋润你的绿色梦。
一望无垠的原野是你生命的寄托。的确“生命如此多娇”。你躬着身子，顶着赤日的太阳向大地宣战——脚下的土地会成为一片汪洋的绿海。
清晨，水样的清晨，你的足迹就蹒跚在荆棘丛生的路上，持着你的铁锹，带上一天的干粮开始了你的绿色梦。你的头上已成了汗的海洋，而你视若无睹，一如既往。铁锹发出的铮铮声，你没有理会，仍是低头工作。
晚上，那如水的月，照出了你佝偻的身躯。已经很晚了，难道你不累吗？回答是否定的。星星在你身旁作伴，青蛙在你身边歌唱，你没有理会，仍是低头工作。
星星为伴，你每天睡得很迟；月亮作证，你每天起得极早。
日复一日，年复一年，你的手心长满了茧，鬓发已白，岁月的甘苦，有你知道，其中的甘甜，有你知道。
春天，小鸟因你而歌唱，太阳因你而灿烂，小草因你而嫩绿，花儿因你而红艳。你用你的双手填平了你的绿色梦。
天空蓝蓝，脚下却已一片新绿。
回答者： doreamonreal - 魔法师 五级 10-12 15:37
保护环境
清凌凌的小河成了又脏又臭的水沟；绿茵茵的森林成了光秃秃的土坡……一切的一切，惨不忍睹。
如果有一个空气清新、鸟语花香、山明水秀、平和安详、没有战争，大家都各睦相处的世外桃源，你想不想住在那里呢？
再看看地球，鸦片战争和抗日战争还说得过去，可伊美战争就不一样了，美国仅仅为了石油就无端挑衅，爆发战争，让许多人无可归不说，对地球有多大的伤害有谁去统计过呢？再者说了，过分地去开采石油也不好嘛，只不过是给地球走向死亡的路缩短了一点而已。
且不说美国，再看日本，打着研究的旗号竟然捕杀了2000多头鲸鱼！啧啧啧，多么残忍，看看人类是多么的残忍啊！
不说那么多，其实我们中国也有一点错误。“神五”和“神六”也花了不少的矿产，还有那么多国家上天试验，资源在实验失败之后结果怎样？当然，如果美国早点对外公布“秘方”，又怎么会浪费那么多的资源呢？
其实，保护环境不难做到：拒绝使用一次性物品；使用布袋；尽量减少白色垃圾的产生；尽量使物品可以二次使用……说小一点，力所能及的就有：不乱丢垃圾；不要玩水；节约用电等等。如果人人都 能这样做，那么世界将成为美好的大家园。
那就让我们齐心协力，开始创造这个大家园吧！
资源与环境—人类生活的保障
人类自诞生起，一切衣食往行及生产，生活，无不依赖于我们所生存的这个星球，地球上的大气、森林，海洋、河流、土壤、草原、野生动植物等，组成了错综复杂而关系密切的自然生态系统，这就是人类赖以生存的基本环境，长期以来，人类把文明的进程一直滞留在对自然的征服掠夺上，似乎从未想到对哺育人类的地球给予保护和回报，在取得辉煌的文明成果的同时，人类对自然的掠夺却使得我们所生存的这个星球满目疮疤，人口的增长和生产活动的增多，也对环境造成冲击，给环境带来压力。
众所周知，人类是以自然环境为生存，延续的物质基础。但是，随着现代工业的发展，自然环境却遭受到愈来愈严重的破坏。大气污染，水污染，陆地污染。。。。。。以至世界上再也找不到一块净土。
或许你会想，想在重要的是发展科技，科技发达了之后在去环保也不迟，那你到时候可要后悔了。如果我们现在过分陶醉于对抗大自然的胜利，认为我们取得了什么了不起的成就，那我们离灭亡也就不远了
气候变暖，臭氧层空洞，酸雨，有毒废弃物，野生生物灭绝，以及大气、水污染等，这是我们当前面临的一连串全球环境问题，面对这些问题，我们该做些什么呢？
保护环境，人人有责，但我们现在还只是学生，不可能为全人类的环境作出特别大的贡献，但我们可以从身边的环境做起，从保护学校的环境做起，例如：遵守有关禁止乱扔各种废弃物的规定，把废弃物扔到指定的地点或容器中，避免使用一次性的饮料杯、饭盒、塑料袋，用纸盒等代替，这样可以大大减少垃圾，减轻垃圾处理工作的压力，爱护花草树木，少赠送贺年卡，保持校园清洁等。
以上这些虽是小事，但是，只要大家动手，一起努力，从节约资源和减少污染着手，调整一下自己的生活方式，我们就能为保护地球做出一份贡献。
节约资源，保护环境,做保护地球的小主人。
世界水资源的缺乏World Water Shortage
A new study warns that about thirty percent of the world's people may not have enough water by the year 2025.
一项新的研究结果提出警告：到2025年，世界上将有30%的人没有足够的水饮用。
A private American organization called Population Action International did the new study. It says more than three-hundred-thirty-five-million people lack enough water now. The people live in twenty-eight countries. Most of the countries are in Africa or the Middle East.
这项研究是由美国一家名叫“人口行动”的私立机构进行的。报告说现在世界上有三亿三千五百万人没有足够的水。这些人主要分布在非洲或中东的28个国家。
P-A-I researcher Robert Engelman says by the year 2025, about three-thousand-million people may lack water. At least 18 more countries are expected to have severe water problems. The demand for water keeps increasing. Yet the amount of water on Earth stays the same.
人口行动组织的研究人罗博特.安格曼说，到2025年大约三十亿人缺水。至少还有其他18个国家将可能面临同样严重的水短缺问题。人类对水的需求不断上升，但地球上水的还是保持不变。
Mr. Engelman says the population in countries that lack water is growing faster than in other parts of the world. He says population growth in these countries will continue to increase.
安格曼先生说，水短缺的国家的人口增长率要高于世界其他地区的人口增长率。他还说这些国家的人口出生率将持续增长。
The report says lack of water in the future may result in several problems. It may increase health problems. Lack of water often means drinking waters not safe. Mr. Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases, such as cholera, which are carried in water. Lack of water may also result in more international conflict. Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. This is true of Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, Syria, Sudan, and Iraq. And the report says lack of water would affect the ability of developing to improve their economies. This is because new industries often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.
报告表明，在未来，水资源的缺乏可能会导致一些严重的后果。首先它可能会产生更多的健康问题。水资源的缺乏就意味着饮用水不再有保障。安格曼先生说，诸如霍乱等在水中传播的疾病会使世界出现许多问题。水缺乏也会引起更多的国际纷争。各国可能由于水而发动战争。现在有些国家，例如埃及，荷兰，柬埔寨，叙利亚，苏丹和伊拉克等，60%的纯净水是从国外进口的。报告认为水缺乏将影响发展国家发展经济的能力。这是因为新工业在开始阶段经常需要大量的水。
The Population Action International study gives several solutions to the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. Another way is to teach people to be careful not to waste water. A third way is to use less water of agriculture.
人口行动组织的研究报告为世界的水短缺问题提出了几个解决的办法。第一，找到多用途的用水方法。第二，教育人们不要浪费水资源。第三就是少用农业水。
The report also says long-term solutions to the water problem must include controls on population growth. It says countries cannot provide clean water unless they slow population growth by limiting the number of children people have.
报告同时表明，控制人口增长是长远解决水缺乏问题不可缺少的措施之一。它说除非各国能通过限制生育来降低人口的增长，否则它们不可能提供干净的水。
Global warming a bigger threat to poor全球变暖加剧贫穷 气候变化急待控制
Global warming, modelled on computer here, kills more people than terrorism
Global warming threatens to reverse human progress, and make unachievable all UN targets to reduce poverty(联合国所有减少贫穷的目标), according to some of the world's leading international and development groups.
In a report published today, Oxfam, Greenpeace, Christian Aid, Friends of the Earth, WWF(英国牛津救济委员会、“绿色和平”组织、基督徒互援会、“地球之友”组织、世界野生动物基金组织) and 15 other groups say rich governments must immediately address(致力于) climate change to avoid even "obscene levels(无法忍受的程度)" of worldwide poverty.
"Food production, water supplies, public health and people's livelihoods are already being damaged and undermined," the report says. "There is no either/or approach possible(想找一个‘非此即彼'的办法是不可能的). The world must meet its commitments to achieve poverty reduction and also tackle climate change. The two are inextricably linked(二者的联系是难解难分的)."
The report, which draws on UN predictions of the effects of climate change in poor countries over the next 50 years, says poor countries will experience more flooding, declining food production, more disease and the deterioration or extinction of entire ecosystems(整个生态系统的退化甚至消失) on which many of the world's poorest people depend.
"Climate change needs to be addressed now. The poor will bear the brunt of the impacts. The frontline experience of many of us working in international development indicates that communities are having to combat more extreme weather conditions."
Climate change will play havoc（大范围的破坏；浩劫） with agriculture and water supplies and will increase diseases. "By 2025 the proportion of the world's population living in countries of significant water stress will almost double, to 6 billion people. Tropical and sub-tropical areas will be hardest hit - those countries already suffering from food insecurity(食品短缺)".
Poor communities mostly do not need hi-tech solutions, but would most benefit from education, research and being shown how to farm better. The report says unchecked global warming(尚未得到抑制的全球变暖), more than wars or political upheaval(政变), will displace millions of people and destabilise many countries.
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We think this is a special time where eco-friendly people need to unite to save their communities. A time when lovers of the natural environment will be the leaders of a 'new common sense'.
This 'common sense' will see our communities ensure our planet becomes sustainable and peaceful. To start, we need to support each other.
The Environment Society of Australia wants to help by offering you the opportunity to find your green community. The Organic and Enviro Directories are great places to start. The Organic Directory allows you to find organic producers and retailers all over Australia. Whilst our Enviro Directory sorts out all the green and enviro-friendly companies and groups across the country.
You will also find, environmental articles featuring ecology and environment issues, organic farming and organic gardening, alternative technology breakthroughs as well as environment news. Finally we have also recently started our own nursery - the Heart Garden Nursery where we are hoping to combine an environmental, world peace and meditation community centre.
The hope is that we will be able to help you, our greatest environmental resource, inspire others and ourselves to smarter, more sustainable practises that save the environment and save our planet.
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How we live our lives affects wildlife. We turn on a tap and the water that gushes out may have been taken from a marshy place, making it just that little bit drier and less suitable for wading birds.
If we throw away a tin can instead of recycling it, more metal needs to be mined, perhaps eventually destroying a wildlife habitat.
When you switch on a light, the electricity may come from a coal-burning power station, which releases gases into the air that contribute to global warming – the biggest threat faced by wildlife in the future.
We can help wildlife by being more environmentally friendly in the way we live our lives – using fewer resources and less energy.
Using the link, you can download one of the activities that will help you to be environmentally friendly. This is an example so you can see the type of task you might choose to do.
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http://www.robroad.com/data/2006/0724/article_117005_1.htm
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The Environmental Revolution - We Can Make a Difference!
Since the first time having blown bubbles in my Open Water class, I've logged over 100 dives. This love for diving has evolved into an intense passion towards protecting the ocean, and all of its inhabitants. I've chosen to put my love for the ocean into action, as an environmentalist. Actually, this passion extends out towards efforts that look to help all the planetary domains gain protection. As such, I appreciate when others take the time educate me on those other realms for which I know less about. To be an environmentalist, one must choose the cause which resonates within ones sole, and run with it. One must be willing to educate people about the environment while being open to education from those people who support other causes. Together we can help each other towards learning how to become a true "Environmentalist".
We must all encourage positive collaboration and education as opposed to being against something. For example, sharks are being decimated to near extinction simply for their fins. The fins are used to make Shark Fin soup, a delicacy popular particularly in Taiwan and Singapore. It would be easy to blame these communities for creating the demand. However, in conversing with Asian environmentalists, they liken the culture around eating Shark Fin soup to the culture surrounding Americans eating turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. There are ongoing efforts to educate these people, by members of their own community, on just how dangerous this cultural practice is and the devastating impact this could have on their (our) world if all the sharks were to disappear as a result.
Environmentalists everywhere are making a difference! Famous restaurants have taken endangered Swordfish off their menus, these same restaurants are buying wild-caught salmon (and boosting the economy of local fisheries in the process), laundromats have started selling green detergent, this just to name a few of these enlightened changes. This is how the "Environmentalist" can begin the revolution. Just find something you believe in and make a stand. One by one, we can make our planet a cleaner place to live, steeped in healthy bio-diversity for generations to come.
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Giving 1% to Protect Our Environment
Though most of the world's surface is covered by water, since the Earth is so large relative to human horizons, there doesn't appear to be a shortage of land. However, when one begins to think of land in terms of a human resource, i.e., a producer of food, a provider of wood, an expanse for passage, one realizes that many portions are either too lacking in nutrients, too high in elevation, too prone to flooding, or too cold or ice-ridden for extensive use. Furthermore, habitable lands are becoming less abundant due to desertification (the expansion of deserts due to the misuse of land), agricultural expansions and rising sea levels. Since humans aren't the only species that need land, it isn't surprising that this resource is becoming limited for other forms of life too. In part as a result of this added stress on living things, we are also witnessing extinctions of grand proportions-at a rate of many thousands species per year. Since these losses are largely due to human actions, such as deforestation and non-native species introduction, many are beginning to pay attention to how we use and protect land. Recent ecological research has also recently provided a message of hope concerning the future well-being of life on this planet.
In the world today, scientists estimate that the Earth is losing at least 1 percent of species every ten years, and the percentage loss may be close to 5 percent. Even if only the lower rate persists, the Earth will have lost near half of its biological diversity by 2070. Can this be possible? Many esteemed scientists think so. While the future appears bleak, several recent insights tell us that we have the potential to significantly reduce what amounts to a biotic holocaust, one not witnessed on Earth for over 60,000,000 years. While there are hopeful signs in the area of human activities (such as increased acreage of nature preserves and national parks), the hope of which I speak of here stems from specific characteristics of the other forms of life which may enable us to mutually coexist in the long term.
The Earth's organisms are wonderfully varied in size, shape, function, behavior, and genetic code. One only need to consider that there are ~ 15,000 species of butterflies and ~50,000 species of mushrooms worldwide to begin to fathom the immensity of variety that this planet has. Yet, as different as the species come, the bulk of living things are also similar in a couple of very important ways. Most living things live in relatively small regions and do not travel far from where they or their parents were born. In fact, recent biological and ecological work has determined that most land species are very particular about where they live. As opposed to humans whose choice of home is largely driven by economic and political forces (mobility driven by availability of wealth or forced relocation), flora and fauna find themselves in locations for which they are adapted. We now know that many species of insects and plants have a very restricted range in which they found. Very few organisms are ubiquitous like we are. It goes without saying that you aren't going to find a Great Blue Heron or a Grizzly visiting Antarctica or climbing Mt. Everest; yet you might find the snow bear (recently discovered and previously known as the Abominable Snowman) doing the latter. Recognizing that most living things are rather localized during their lifetimes has profound implications, both hopeful and cautious. On the one hand, it suggests that we can learn a lot about species by parking our scientific minds in specific locations. On the other hand, it means that if we destroy even small areas of the globe we are likely causing great and even irreversible destruction to the species that are found there.
We have also determined that there are specific locations on our planet where a disproportionate number of species live. For our species, Asia serves as the homeland for most. In fact more than 60 percent of humans lives on this largest of continents (which only makes up 24 percent of the land surface on the planet). With other life forms, geographic concentrations sometimes defy description. We only recently became aware that the vast majority of terrestrial (as distinguished from oceanic or riparian) species collectively live on just 1 percent of the Earth's land surface. (If humans lived at a comparable concentration level, we'd all have to cluster together in an area roughly the size of Antarctica or twice that of Australia.) This mind-blowing realization has prompted those that have been struggling to protect organisms a new way of thinking about such protection. They have concluded that if we humans could somehow find a way to avoid disturbing just 1-2 percent of the land surface, nearly 70 percent of the world's terrestrial species might be able to survive. Recently some conservationists have refocused their attention on these unique locations.
The regions of the globe that contain such a splendid array of biological diversity have been named "hot spots," a name that communicates their critical status. In what has to be the most beautiful books I have seen, Hotspots represents the collective work of scientists Russ and Cristina Mittermeier and Norman Myers as well as photographer Patricio Robles Gil. In this oversized volume, these four scholars have assembled more than three hundred vivid photographs of some of the world's endangered species and threatened ecosystems. These absolutely breath-taking images come from the what they refer to as "the 25 most critically important regions" in the world. These regions originally constituted almost 12 percent of the world's land surface but now, due to human pressure at many levels, only a little more than 1 percent remains intact. What makes these locations, which are found on all continents except Antarctica, so "hot" is that they are home to hordes of the Earth's plants and animals and they face imminent danger from a variety of human activities. The Hotshot authors and others strongly believe that the global community can do wonders if these areas move to the top of our priority list.
But what will have to happen for these spots to be protected? There are no simple answers to this central question. Unfortunately, those of us in the United States who have the luxury of time to even ponder such questions, face many obvious difficulties. First, nearly all of the hotspots are located outside of our territorial boundaries, exceptions being the forests of Oregon and California as well as portions of Southern Florida (namely the Keys and the Everglades). Key hotspots are found in New Zealand, Madagascar, and Indonesia as well as the continental parts of south-east Asia. Obviously we cannot expect that we will be able to force other countries to enact and enforce laws that will greatly reduce biological degradation. Yet, while many other countries have ratified the Biodiversity Treaty that was drafted at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, it has never reached the floors of the U.S. Congress for a vote; Canada, Japan, and the European Union are among those to ratify it. By this inaction our nation apparently lacks the wherewithal to support global conservation efforts as a matter of principle. However, given that the wealthy nations in concert with international banks promote unsustainable extraction of resources in the world's developing countries, it would appear that we have an obligation to do so.
If our national policy makers are unwilling to commit themselves to the protection of global ecosystems and species, we still have ourselves to look to for sources of positive change. All of us have tremendous purchasing power, especially in comparison to the majority of the other human residents on this planet; Barry Bearak, a Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist who recently spoke at Knox College's convocation, referred to the residents of the United States as "filthy rich," a conclusion he came to after spending a great deal of time in the poorer regions of the world, particularly Afghanistan and India. What we buy makes a difference. The environmental campaign to support shade coffee rather than sun coffee is just one of many attempts for the consumer to support sustainable practices in regions of great ecological diversity. According to the Northwest Shad Coffee Campaign, shade coffee agricultural allows for the extraction of a desired resource but at the same time allows between 3-8 times as many birds species to persist not to mention many more mid-size mammals as well as amphibians and beetles. Coffee is also a particularly important commodity in terms of the health of ecological systems because the countries that produce the bulk of it are precisely the same countries that are home to the majority of the world's species; the countries of Brazil, Bolivia, Indonesia, Vietnam collectively produce ~40 percent of the 17 billion pounds of coffee that are harvested each year (folks, that's more than 3 pounds per person!). Burdensome debts also force many developing countries to endlessly delay infrastructure investment. Debt-for-nature swaps, an idea proposed by Dr. Thomas Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Federation in the mid-1980s, have enabled poor countries to relieve foreign debt and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to increase commitment to conservation programs both at the same time. In these swaps, NGOs pay off a poor country's debt to a bank or well-to-do country at greatly reduced costs in order to establish agreements for investment in national parks, for example. While not a cure-all, these efforts have begun the paradigm shift from unabated expansion and unhealthy extraction to one supportive of saving natural ecosystems and securing the health and welfare of all human populations.
Threats to these locations represent massive scale intrusions taken by societies found on every continent. Unfortunately, there is so much that will be lost if these "special" places aren't quickly protected from future degradation. On the bright side though, so much of the world's genetic diversity lives in just a couple handfuls of "hotspots" that if these locations were saved hordes of species would be able to persist into the next millennium. The time is now to respond to this fairly recent observation and insight. It is time for the world to begin to act like a civilized 21st Century society. It is incumbent upon us, those with time and wealth, to maintain the momentum that others have started. The masses of life forms are relying on us to make the best attempt at this daunting yet critical task. Hopefully our species will be sensible enough to leave at least 1 percent of land alone, so that other life forms may continue to exist. Do we need all 100 percent?
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The environmental protection is the most major problem which in the modern life the humanity faces. Must solve this problem must start from foundation. First, must massively propagandize, enhances people's consciousness with understanding, strengthens the environmental protection consciousness. Next, must carry on waste recovery use, reduces to forest-tree's felling. Also must strengthen to white pollution processing, little uses the plastic product. Finally, must make improvement to clean aspect. Causes the city's appearance to be neater. For Earth's tomorrow, we must start from the now diligently, will want the well local constable to protect the environment. To this us proposes as follows suggests: Implementation trash classification packed in bags. Like this not only can reduce the environmental sanitation worker's work load, but also can even better basically arrive makes use of waste, to reduce the pollution, saves the resources.
蔽柯若奇：[答案] 1.Everyone all knows that environment is important to us. 每个人都知道环境对我们来说很重要. Sometimes bad environment is bad for our health. 有时,不好的环境有害我们的健康. So don't throw some bottles around,please. 因此请不要乱扔瓶子 ...
瑞金市18284057553： 写一篇保护环境的英语短文, - ？
蔽柯若奇：[答案] To protect environment has no time to delay.Pullution and desertization spread out dramatically every time which imperils more than 60 countries in the world. Someone said,＂we should not be immersed in the profits getting from the nature.In fact,the ...
瑞金市18284057553： 关于环保的英语作文?(80字左右) - ？
蔽柯若奇：[答案] A Polluted Environment Environmental pollution is a serious social problem.It poses a terrible threat to men's health.The ... if we educate people to think about the problems we shall have a better and cleaner planet in the future.保护环境 过去,人们不必...
瑞金市18284057553： 写一篇关于保护环境的英语作文 - ？
蔽柯若奇： It's Our Duty To Protect Our Environment保护环境是我们的义务It's our duty to protect our environment. Where do we live? The earth. The earth is the only one place we live in. So you know how important the environment is. 保护环境是我们的义务....
瑞金市18284057553： 关于保护环境的英语作文 - ？
蔽柯若奇：[答案] 有关环境保护的英语作文 (1) With the improvement of our living standard, more and more people can afford a car. As a result, our roads are more often than not crammed with cars. However, with more ...
瑞金市18284057553： 保护环境的英语作文 - ？
蔽柯若奇： Protection of the environment is our due responsibility for each person. The earth is our home, we have a responsibility to take care of yourself, and for our future generations. Fortunately, more and more people have recognized these issues. Has ...
瑞金市18284057553： 如何保护环境的英语作文 - ？
蔽柯若奇：[答案] Protect environment(环境保护) The earth scale change of climate has brought a new kind of natural disaster and the developed and complicated city system is holding a latent risk of expanding the damage artificially.Also people has been spoiling the...
瑞金市18284057553： 求关于保护环境的英语文章 - ？
蔽柯若奇： 英语作文-可以参考了:)~~ In modern society, we tend to become more and more aware of our living environment or physical environment, because we is not clean as before. So many people now choose their house as to its environment but not ...
瑞金市18284057553： 关于保护环境的英语作文 - ？
蔽柯若奇： Protect environment(环境保护) The earth scale change of climate has brought a new kind of natural disaster and the developed and complicated city system is holding a latent risk of expanding the damage artificially. Also people has been ...
瑞金市18284057553： 有关环境保护的英文文章 - ？
蔽柯若奇： With the fast development of modern society, it brings human beings with comfortable life, in the meantime, however, it brings people with increasingly deterioting enviromental polution, such as noisy pulution, air pulution and so forth.There are many...
