David Attenborough
David Attenborough is very gloomy about much of what he's seen. What's
depressed him most has been the huge speed and scale of change that human
beings are inflicting on the world. People destroy everything around them.
For example they cut down forests just because they need firewood to keep
warm. And they don’t think about the future. When they cut down forests,
the good soil have no umbrellas to protect them from the heavy rains. Water
washes all good soil and in the future we will have no soil, no forests.
Every year people destroy about 29,000 square miles. That is an area the
size of the whole Scotland disappearing every year. Forty per cent of our
drugs, our medicines, are derived from plants and most of those come from
the tropical rain forests, and most of those come from the Amazon. But if
nothing will be doing Amazonian jungle will disappear in just few years.
Trees are a vital part of the water cycle, and of course they give us the
oxygen. That means that we’ll have nothing to drink, to eat and no oxygen
to breathe. Cutting down forests also causes floods. But we can’t say to
these people that they mustn’t cut down that tree in order to cook their
food. And it is an important problem of mankind – thinks David. But there
are also other environmental problems today. Some of these problems are :
the ozone holes, global warming ( or green-house effect ), acid rain … And
the tragedy is that the people who suffer first are the deprived people,
the people who are living on the edge of prosperity. And if they think
that they are insulated from that, they are wrong. I think now a lot of
people are beginning to realize that environmental problems are not
somebody else’s. They make different organization, whose aim is
conservation. For example “ GREEN PEACE ” , “ FRIEND OF THE EARTH ” and
others. Everyday millions people from all over the world do everything to
protect our environment , and they need for our help. I think we ought to
help them , just to make our future better.
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