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Environment
Gas emission from factories and exhaust fumes from vehicles lead
to global warming, which may lead to a devastating effect on the
planet in the future.
~ As many developing countries are becoming industrialised,
emission from factories are expected to rise. Furthermore, the
number of cars on our streets is growing all the time, and cheap air
travel is making flying accessible to more and more people.
Consequently, the amount of greenhouse gasses released into the
atmosphere shows no sign of decreasing.
resource.
We are destroying wildlife habitats.
~ In many countries, the governments could not control the
poaching and hunting well, and many more animals are becoming
endangered species.
Enormous areas of rainforest are being cut down in favour of human
interest.
Waste/rubbish
The amount of waster we produce has increased, and this problem is a result of our
consumer culture.
- Products nowadays are not made to last; if something breaks, many
people simply throw it way and buy a new one.
- Most foods are sold in non-biodegradable packaging especially the
fast food.
- The amount of household waste is growing as many furniture still
works but they would be replaced by new advanced one.
Litter
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Company should make goods that last longer with better quality.
They should not use so much packaging or use much biodegradable
packaging if possible.
Fossil fuel like crude oil and natural gas are running out.
Nuclear power is sustainable energy source.
It can be used to produce electricity without wasting natural
resources.
It could be replace the use of natural resources like coal, oil and gas.
Nuclear power stations are cleaner than fossil fuel power stations.
11. Family
Family size
As countries have developed there has been a trend towards smaller
family size. Why does it happen? How does it affect society?
Why?
- Families in many countries are not as large as they used to be.
- Ever since the industrial revolution, rising cost of living in cities
compelled people to shrink the size of their family due to economic
reason.
How?
- The smaller family have both positive and negative impact on the
society.
- One of positive effect is that the population would fall, which lead to
less strain on public service and less completion in sacred resource.
The parents also can provide better education to their children as it
will cost less, which will benefit to society as a whole.
o A study conducted by Save the Children, a non-profit
organization, found that the children of the modern era
perform better than their earlier counterparts in the schools
and college.
- However, a possible negative impact is that there will be fewer
young people in the workforce in the future, thus making the
sustainability of economy growth less certain.
o Many western economies, for instance, have experience
deflation and negative economy growth for many years, and
this does not seems to be ended soon.
Working parents
In many countries there has been an increase in social problems involving
teenagers in recent years. Many people believe that this is due to modern
lifestyles because parents spend more and more time at work and have
less time to supervise their children. To what extent do you believe this is
true?
Parents bear some responsibility for the actions of their teenaged children.
- This is particular true when the parents are absent from the home
and not in the position to control their children.
- The argument is that if they were at home, they would be able to
make certain that their offspring did not join any group of violent
criminal and spent their time on socially acceptable activities.
- Moreover, the children especially in teenager age is still not enough
mature, if the parents travel frequently for business trip, they have
to solve their own social problem without the parents guidance and
it is a important factor causing juvenile crime.
However, it can be also said that working parents are in fact setting a
good example to their children.
- It is very often the case that teenagers who come from hardworking
families spend their time on schoolwork and conduct themselves
well.
- The teenagers who do create social problems by, for example,
getting drunk or painting graffiti come from homes where parents
are unemployed.
Other factors are relating to the educational system.
This is due to the fact that many teenagers leave school aged 16,
and cannot find job because of lack of qualifications.
As the result, they spend time on the street with nothing productive
to do.
Likewise, social problems with teenagers can be the consequence of
poor discipline at school with teacher failing to control their classes.
Family closeness
Nowadays, families are not as close as in the past and a lot of people have
become used to this. Why is this happening? Do the advantages of this
trend outweigh the drawbacks?
The cause
- [Working] Due to cutting-throat competition in modern work,
parents spend more working time than ever in the past. As the
result, they are frequently away from home and hardly have time to
take care their families.
- [Entertainment] There are many ways to entertain nowadays
comparing to the past, they are easily taking members of family
away from the family activities. In the past,
Disadvantage
Advantage
The closeness would make family members more engaged and happier.
- The most important of closeness is to improve mutual
understanding between people in families.
12. Crime
Fear of crime
Some people think nothing can be done to reduce the fear of crime.
- Disagree.
- People think little can be done to reduce the levels of crime
o They think that a fear of crime is a state of mind that
perpetuated by the media.
(ex.) we are constantly bombarded with negatives news
stories about crime and violence on the streets.
>> The belief is that whatever we do to reduce the criminal
rate, people will still be scared.
Parents
>> Parents increasing occupational commitments have limited
their opportunity to guide the children in the right direction.
o Parents these days are extremely busy with their works, and
the longer extra hour they work in the office or meet business
partners, the fewer interaction and guidance they give to their
children.
o Being devoid of love and sympathy, children would become
cruel and unsociable to others.
o Getting out of parents control may expose children to
damaging website including rebellious actions. They easily to
imitate what they see and behave in negative ways.
o Many adolescents cannot control their emotion, and they tend
to act violently especially when they are bullied frequently at
school.
o No one guides children in the right direction, the friends they
make easily sway them into the life of crime, and with plenty
of free time they easily engage in criminal activities such as
shoplifting, petty theft.
13. Gender
Issue
Immigrations:
Arguments for immigrations:
- As births rates plummet in the developed countries, immigrants
would keep the developed economies afloat.
o They will account for a great increase in the developed
countries workforce, while the working-age population in
those countries is decreasing in a signification rate.
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Many people against the refugee accept just because they are too
anxious that the people fleeing war and turmoil will bring violence,
disease to their countries.
Against: However, this viewpoint is too overstated, the negative
consequences are possible to be controlled by a limited acceptance
rates, considerate resettlement program of governments, and a
great support of local communities.