Top 10 environmental protection questions

1. What are the main environmental issues in your country? How can they be solved or the situation improved? Suggest several ways, give specific examples.

2. A new nuclear power station is planned to be built in your neighbourhood. Do you consider it a positive step forward in progress or a wrong decision? Why? Support your answer with concrete reasons.

3. There are two controversial points of view: human activity improves the conditions of living on the Earth and makes it a better place to live and humans destroy our planet and lead it into decline. Which statement, in you point of view, is true? Why?

4. People need timber to produce all kinds of materials and land to grow more and more crops, since the demand for them is constantly growing. Should people blindly follow the need to give more farmland and timber and ignore the fact that the earth becomes impoverished and there is less and less space for endangered animal species to live in? What can people do to improve the situation? Is there any compromise?

5. How have the development of modern technology influenced the environment on our planet over the past 50 years? What are the perspective possible influences? What can be done about it?

6. What kind of climate do you consider the best to live in? What whether conditions do you like? Why?

7. The disappearance of natural resources is a normal tendency for a modern life. Choose one natural resource that gradually disappears and explain why it should be preserved.

8. What is noise pollution? In your opinion how dangerous it is? What can people do about such kind of pollution?

9. Imagine how the Earth will look like in some 100 years. Describe the climate and the weather conditions people would live in.

10. What causes the greenhouse effect, and how does it influence the weather situation in the world? Some scientists believe that the increasing amount of natural disasters is caused by the changes in the atmosphere. What is your opinion on the topic?