Question

Why is sustainability important?

There are a limited amount of resources in the world that humans must extract from the very earth in order to
produce houses, cars, computers and pretty much everything else. When we use the word sustainability to mean
maintain, it means to maintain it forever. This is because our actions have a lasting effect on the environment and we
should protect it for our future generations.
If we want to understand if something is sustainable, we should ask ourselves the question – can I do this forever?
Let’s take a look at the product plastic, for example. It became a mass-produced material after the World War II, but by
the 1900’s, we were using plastic for everything: from containers for food, to lamps, toys, bottles, bags and much much
more. But plastic takes millions of years to decompose and so the problem lies with what happens to all this plastic when
we’re done using it?
By producing all this plastic that we don’t use forever, and since it takes nature a very long time to make it
decompose, we end up with large amounts of plastic that is just taking up space on earth. Therefore, using plastic is not
sustainable. Plastic is just ONE example of unsustainable consumption.


Look at the definitions below and find in the text the corresponding words: (0,3 pt - 0,1 each)
a) something made in large scale - ____________________________________
b) for all future times; for always - ____________________________________
c) the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area; where animals, people and plants live -
________________________

Answer 1

Resposta:

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