Оригинал на английском:
1. Answer the questions.
1. Why do people at the beginning of the new millennium spend so much time and effort drawing public attention to the problem of ecology? 2. What ecological problems that humanity faces nowadays in your opinion are most urgent? 3. Why are scientists so much concerned about the greenhouse effect and the process of global warming? 4. Do you think global warming is caused by human activities? Which of them? 5. Since the Industrial Revolution which started more than 200 years ago the need for energy has steadily increased, hasn’t it? Why are people nowadays very much concerned about the energy they use to light and heat homes, the energy that makes cars run, etc.? 6. It is a known fact that during the history of the Earth there were periods of dramatic climate changes which occurred naturally, Ice Age among them. Why do you think scientists are so much concerned about the current climate changes? 7. Can you say that the climate in the place where you live is changing? How? Do you find these changes for the better or for the worse? Can you give examples of climate changes in other places of the planet? 8. Do you think the humankind can solve the world’s ecological problems? If so, in what way? 9. Can individuals help in this area? How?
1. Why do people at the beginning of the new millennium spend so much time and effort drawing public attention to the problem of ecology? 2. What ecological problems that humanity faces nowadays in your opinion are most urgent? 3. Why are scientists so much concerned about the greenhouse effect and the process of global warming? 4. Do you think global warming is caused by human activities? Which of them? 5. Since the Industrial Revolution which started more than 200 years ago the need for energy has steadily increased, hasn’t it? Why are people nowadays very much concerned about the energy they use to light and heat homes, the energy that makes cars run, etc.? 6. It is a known fact that during the history of the Earth there were periods of dramatic climate changes which occurred naturally, Ice Age among them. Why do you think scientists are so much concerned about the current climate changes? 7. Can you say that the climate in the place where you live is changing? How? Do you find these changes for the better or for the worse? Can you give examples of climate changes in other places of the planet? 8. Do you think the humankind can solve the world’s ecological problems? If so, in what way? 9. Can individuals help in this area? How?