Monologue: Environment - What to do.

I have been asked to talk about environment and what to do.

This is a very complicated question because environment is a problem with lots of different aspects. In everything you do, you are affecting to the environment. Besides that, the humanity needs a clean environment to survive, it is evident that as humans we have a long way until we get to live in other planets.

In other words, it is very important to take care of our environment.

The problems we cope with respect this issue are very different depending on the country we are living.  In Spain, the main environmental problems (at least from my point of view) we face are:

1.-  Drought. Spain is a mediterranean country and it suffers frequent drought which makes  forest disappear. Sometimes people can suffer cut water.

2.- Air pollution. This is one of the most important problems in developed countries and it's caused mainly by cars, industries and heating systems. Air pollution is in the origin of climatic change and many respiratory diseases.

3.- Climatic change. This issue is related to the other two I have mentioned before. The point is that it is a very serious problem because it can cause extreme weather and what is more important it can reduce our capacity of producing food.

There are three different levels in which can be acted in order to solve these problems: government, community and individual. In my opinion this three levels would have to work together.

My proposals are the following:

1.- Drought. As individuals we can make different things to reduce our water consumption: using less the bathroom, turning off taps when we aren't using it and so on. As a community, we can plant trees because they keep humidity. And finally the government can force industries to investigate and to use new technologies in order to reduce water consumption.

2.- Air pollution. As individuals we have to reduce the use of the private car. The community has to support the use of alternative technologies to produce energy like wind power, solar power and so on.  The government has to promote public transport and also they have to force the industry to use cleaner  and more efficient technologies.

3.- Climatic change. The best way to prevent climatic change (It doesn't mind if you are a citizen, a community or the govern) is to lower energy consumption and products consumption. Any action taken in this way will help to reduce the effects of climatic change. Other way is to use alternative energies (they are non polluting energies) to generate electric current.

In conclusion, there are lots of things we can do in order to avoid environmental damages. For this reason and even though challenges are spectacular, I am optimistic and I believe that we have the tools to prevent an environmental disaster.