The awareness of preserving environment had become more and more serious on people’s mind, while only few of them had try to use their own effort for improving the situation. It is important to understand why people are lack of initiative to protect the world and how to tackle this rigid problem.
People today do not make effort to protect the environment because they think it is the business of government and community. On their vision, individual’s power is too limited to do anything. On the contrary, it is government and community who own a big number of resources could finish such big projects. For example, asking a person to plant trees covered a large area of forest in a desert in order to control the loss of water and soil is impossible, but big organization can make it.
Another reason is that people are get used to live in a convenient life. By buying private car, instead of taking public transportation, people could arrange their schedule more flexible. While this always leads to huge carbon dioxide emission and worsen atmosphere. If they aware taking public transportation not only can arrive their destination, but also can make an effort to improve our living area, they will possibly try to reduce driving their car.
There are a variety of measures can be taken to appeal people get involve on protecting the environment. Firstly, social community can hold speeches and post posters to disseminate the idea that individual can also take the responsibility of protecting the world. For example, listing normal things that resident could do like reduce the use of disposable products to encourage people take the duty of preserving world. Another possible solution is that governments enforce laws to control people using highly resources consuming products. For instance, the tax penalty can be imposed on the use of private helicopters or ships, thereby encouraging people to use eco-friendly alternatives.
To summary, people’s attitude toward the duty of protecting environment and the habit of living in a convenient but costly life are main reasons behind low willingness for preserving the environment. To address this problem, it requires both personal effort and government supervision.