People are not paying attention to environmental protection. What is the cause and suggest solutions to deal with this issue.

The environment is calling our name worldwide, especially with the frequent occurrence of natural disasters from 1tsunamistsunami to earthquakes. 2These are acknowledged threatsThat is the acknowledged threat to the survival of humankind, but the truth remains that people seem to be 3occupied with other concerns rather than the taskbusy with something else, rather than the mission of salvaging the world before it is too late. Reasons for people’s 4blatant disregard for this issueblatant ignorance of this fact 5vary for both subjective and objective reasonsare various, subjectively and objectively.

Governments are partly to be condemned for their lack of serious effort and radical 6enforcement of environmental protection lawslaw enforcement on environment protection. 7The fact is people around the globe are still releasing a huge amount of waste, without being heavily penalized or get away with this, perhaps by simply lobbying the government or bribing some key figures in the authorities. Also, despite the fact that authorities are 8urging people to useurging people into using 9environmentally friendly products and to join campaigns that keepenvironment-friendly products and campaigns to keep the environment clean, ironically, they are, simultaneously, allowing 10businessesbusinessmen to produce as many cars as possible and advertisers to spur consumerism among people, which is undeniably the catalyst for 11the rapid increase in air pollutionthe booming of air pollution and 12premature depletion of natural resourcesearly exhaustion of natural resources.

Objectively, economic imbalance between nations is 13another cause of people’s limited attention to environmental protectionanother culprit of people’s little attention to save the environment. While some nations 14achieve economic prosperitypass their economic heights, being willing to voice their protests against any action dirtying the environment, others are too hectic with the 15pressures of povertyprodding call of poverty and illiteracy of citizens and find themselves 16focused on priorities that differ from thoseat variance with priorities of the developed world. In this case, any attempt to slow down the 17development of poorer nationsdevelopment of the latter proves paradoxical, and for that reason, our environment stays fully exploited. The painful truth is that the inherent basic instinct of people, after all, is to feed themselves as much as possible, 18taking precedencetaking the precedence over doing something 19for a long-term purposefor long-term purpose, say, environmental conservation.

Solutions to this 20pressing issuehead-aching issue are suggested. Drastic measures implemented by governments to minimize pollution are the 21prohibition of excessive resource exploitationprohibition of natural exploitation above the limit, discouragement of private means of transportation, and establishment of international treaties, for instance, Kyoto. Nevertheless, this means no worth if each citizen, himself or herself, pays no heed. 22Long-term remedies, educational programs to raise people’s awareness of environment protection are strongly recommended. It would be such an effective method to inculcate in our little children the immediate consequences of environmental damage, by introducing the environment protection as the mandatory subject at school and frequently showing videos of environment hazards on television everywhere.

To conclude, I strongly believe that once these threats caused by environmental degradation are deeply embedded in our minds, especially children's, our environment will soon be away from jeopardy and our world will be green again.