Economy ecology

Good afternoon dear teachers, and colleagues. I would like to introduce

myself to those of you who don’t know me yet. I am ……, a tenth – year

student.

Today I’ll present the most grevious problem that our planet is facing

today, that is the lack of natural resources and our unthoughtful use of

them. Besides, I’m going to tell you briefly how the government of the

United States solves this problem.

Do you know that every year the United States produces so much solid waste

that wwe could make a line of garbage trucks reaching halfway to the moon?

The amount of rubbish in the world consisted of 40 milliard tones in 1970,

but in 2005 this number is about to reach even 1000 milliard tones. Can you

believe that every year Americans throw away so much food that they could

feed the entire population of Canada for one day? Unfortunately that is

true. The next problem is that space in landfills is running out and

disposal of waste has become troublesome. IIf we go on living like this, the

world’s oil reserves will last only 35 years.

The practice of recycling, reusing, and reducing waste are becoming more

commonplace. In the USA disposal of waste has been developed into big

business. Mostly every country tries tto get rid of waste by exporting all

kinds of rubbish to under-developed countries; used computers, donation

clothes to charities could be mentioned as examples. Isn’t it wise and

thoughtful in respect to the poor? Individuals have also taken actions

to reduce landfill waste. For example, newspapers, bottles, tires are

recycled. Those who want to get rid of leftover food and, at the same time,

care about the environment, turn it into rich garden compost. They win

twice: they don’t have garbage and they have an excellent fertilizer for

vegetable and flower gardens.

As you can see, with no room for items such as newspapers, bottles, and old

lumbers at the landfill, we have to come up with many innovative programs

to recycle what was once thought to be trash. Our goal is to provide

answers for our everyday life that helps to protect our environment – and

conserve precious natural resources. Everyone has to think deeply what he

can do to save his environment. Everyone is responsible for the weather,

ground and water pollution. By destroying the nature we are destroying

ourselves. We have known these problems for a long time, and they have been

made worse by our way of life. As human kind continues to grow, recycling

effort becomes even more important. It will cost money to make these

changes. But it’s better to pay the price now – not later when the effects

of global warming can’t be reversed. Our government must pay more attention

to organising the cleaning of nature. So we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to

those problems, because our earth is our castle.