Environmental Issues and Youth Action: A Call for Change

Environmental Issues

Nuclear Waste Management

1. Managers of nuclear plants are irresponsible about nuclear waste.
2. Managers of nuclear plants are not satisfied with the disposal of nuclear waste.

B.Answer the following questions in your own words.1. What happens when nuclear waste is buried in the ground?
They damage the soil for a long time......................................................................

2. Why is the air polluted in London?

For the amount of smoke produced by factories and cars...........................................

3. What is happening to wildlife as a result of the destruction of the rain forests?

Its natural environment is destroyed and many species become extinct........................

C.Rewrite the following sentence without changing its meaning.

1.Everyone should recycle rubbish and use ozone-friendly products.

Rubbish

must be recycled by everyone and ozone-free products too D.Explain in your own words the meaning of ozone-friendly products.The ozone-friendly products are those that do not harm the ozone layer E.Decide if the following statements are T (true) or F( false). Find evidence in the text to support your answer..F.. 1. People will contaminate the land if they dig it up.
"If people dig up the land for building or farming, they will be using contaminated land, which could be very harmful."

.T. 2. The hole in the ozone layer has led to floods and droughts. " As a result of the hole in the ozone layer, climate changes are occurring all over the world, causing severe floods and droughts as well as typhoons and hurricanes. " F.Find words or expressions in the text that mean the same as:1. ideas (paragraph I) .....views....
2. smoke (paragraph III) .....fumes.........
3. aims (paragraph IV) .......purposes.........
4. lack of rain (paragraph V) .....droughts.....
5. entire (paragraph VI) ......whole...........

G.What do you think about pollution in your country?. Suggest what young people could do to improve the situation.(120 words)

Spain occupies sixth place in the most polluting countries in Europe and twenty in the world, contributing 1.3% of total pollution. About 10,000 people die each year in Spain from causes related to breathing bad air.
But with the exceptional conditions of quarantine, pollution in Spain has decreased by more than 60%, which makes one think.

Still maintaining the current pollution averages, without an education, both on rubbish recycling, and responsible use of private transportation as well as increased use of public transportation.

But educating older people effectively is difficult, so it is rather the duty of younger people to embrace habits which to maintain, such as the use of public transport mainly, to recycle what we already have instead of buying one. new and control buying things that we won't finally use