Some people believe that the Earth is being harmed (damaged) by human activity. Others feel that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. What is your opinion? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
A lot of people fell that human activity makes the Earth a better place to live. But in my opinion, we are just destroying the Eearth by our human activity.
With the increasing population in the world, we have only one option: exploitation more to have enough land to build houses. As as consequence, more trees are being cut down, land for culture now decrease. The Earth that we used to proud because of the green colour is disapearing.
Besides, the development of our industrial economic also brings with it a lot of problems. There are more and more factories apearing everywhere. With the smoke emission from the factories, vehicles, etc, we are destroying our global environment.
Not only do we pollute the air but we also pollute water in rivers, oceans. Therefore, we are facing one big problem: the greenhouse effect. If everything keeps going like this, one near day in the future, there will be no life in the Earth.
Last but not least, we are exploiting all minerals: gasoline, oil, wood, etc. Our lives are still depending on natural minerals. Our need becomes too much compared with the minerals. So, when we use up the minerals, we will face another problem: finding the alternative. With our science, we still need 10 to 20 years to find the replacement. But how can we survive to wait till that time? That is still the big question for the scientists around the world
To sum up, our activities has bad influence on the Earth. There are more and more conferences about the ways to improve our environment. If nothing changes, one day we will pay for what we had done to our Earth.
TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a social sciences class (3)
