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While most people agree that environmental issues are a major concern, there are different views about who is responsible for and what can be done about the damage to the environment. Use the following guides and the articles provided to write an essay in which you define what is meant by ‘ecological footprints’, show how people differ in their assessment of what can be done about environmental problems and describe what people are actually doing




When we think about ecology, the first thing we consider about it is people. People consume more than what they actually need. Nowadays, The ecology is one of the most important part of life and it studies life whatever the details. For example ,how do people, animals and plants affect each other with their environment? Also, the ecology constitutes the main thing to sustaining our life, such as food and different relationships in the habitat. The major points that I will discuss about are firstly, what do ecological footprints mean. Secondly, how people judge and think about environmental problems. Thirdly, I will discuss the acts of people in their environment and what they are actually doing in their real environment. Before we discuss about these points I will explain what ecological footprint mean. According to (Schaller, 2001), footprint means the amount of productive land and water needed to support the production of resources we consume and to absorb the wastes we create can be considered our ecological footprint. This means that all resources when we consume or use lead to make ecological footprints .another definition of ecological footprint from website, “The ecological footprint define as a resource accounting tool that helps countries understand their ecological balance sheet and gives them the data necessary to manage their resources and secure their future”
that means it is very significant because it makes our life easier and reaches us to high standard life.



There are many people believe the developed countries are most responsible for the environment footprint.; on the other hand, some authors consider the poorer countries or developing countries to be cause of what happens in the environment. As we live, many people consume a lot of resources to keep going in their lifestyle whether they come from developed countries or developing countries. Research has shown that People in America and other developed nations have much larger impact on the environment than people in developing nations such as India (Schaller, 2001).on the other word, the number of the factors and smoke car increase in the rich countries so that will contribute to affect on the environment or nature. in fact, when the developed counties such as (western Europe, Canada and Japan) consume many resources more than what they require that thing. As the result, the waste or crap in these countries becomes more than in poorer nations. According to (Schaller, 2001), The average North American lifestyle requires almost 10 acres of ecologically productive lands to supply its resources and absorb its wastes. That means, the ecological demand large land to put their craps and it is a huge rubbish which may affect seriously on the environment. In addition, the population in American is 5% but the Americans consume 20% to 40% recourses(Huber, 2001).they use too much resources so they are polluted their environment ;however, another writer believe that the main factor which affects on the environment is poorer nation. It is obvious that rich country is affected on the environment whereas the poorer country has the same effection. In the developing area of the world, the people use resources as much as they have .moreover, they consume little while they are destructive and wasteful. According to (Huber, 2001)says ,poor nation produce more pollution and use up more land. That happens in this nation because they a lack of the protection place to reduce the pollution. The developing countries depend on the wood as main fire while this wood has enormous impact on the nature and led to make bad habitat.



Our environment worldwide is being damaged every day so that gets problems to the environment. There are many bad of actions people have done that has huge destruction on the environment. For example, pollution and acid rain. As we know ,the most consumptive in the world is human .As a result, that means too much rubbish absolutely will affect on the nature . According to (Young People's Trust for the Environment), each household in Britain produce 1 tons of rubbish every day. Therefore, most of these craps is taken away by buried and this can be dangerous for the natural environment .in addition, the people from different country think about this problem and try to solve by recycling the rubbish to use it again. Recently, I did the survey that the students at zayed university ,I found many students prefer recycle than brined the rubbish at (18,2 students respectively) because they think the recycle reduce our rubbish and gets benefits from it by made up a new large resources after we will not use it again. Also, the people usually increase the amount of pollution when the use car. In my own experience, the developed country has more than three private cars in the one house so that mean the surrounding of this house or the area will be more polluted and spread unclear air. people should use 1 car instead of 3 cars because the people will be more healthy without illnesses and smoke ;on the other hand, the people have to use public transport either walk in the short place to conserve the environment(8,8 students in order).that means they try to use transport has few impact on the environment.However,when people affect on the environment they also impact on the animals such as extinction of thousands of species animals.Accoding to (“Endangeredspecie.com: Endangered Species Profile”) ,The blue whale is classified as an endangered species due to a reduction of at least 50% of the blue whale population over the last three generations. On the other word, there are dramatically decrease in the number of blue whale. Reaction of people about what are they actually doing become dangerous because they hurt themselves firstly, by getting illness then animals suffer from it Intel they become extinct .




In conclusion, the environment is important place where everyone live on it. There are many problems in the environment are affected by people. The points that have been raised show that the means of the ecological footprint, how people are differed in their judgment and what are they doing actually in their environment. In my opinion, people should protect their environment and use the main resources in correct way without polluted the environment. If all people work together keeping their surrounding ,all problems are related to the environment will disappear.


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Endangeredspecie.com: Endangered Species Profile. (, n.d). http://www.endangeredspecie.com/specieprofile.htm. specie profiles and photos, . Retrieved June 2, 2009, from http://www.endangeredspecie.com/specieprofile.htm.
Huber, P. (2001). American Wealth and Consumption Patterns Enhance the Environment. In The Enivronment Opposing Viewpoints (pp. 122-125). San Diego: Greenhaven Press.
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