Learning Activity 3 (Evidence - Environmental Issues)

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In this activity you are going to propose possible solutions for environmental problems. Read about the following environmental issues from the introductory mate materi rial al,, sele select ct one one of the the prob proble lems ms and and make make a pres presen enta tati tion on in Micr Micros osof oftt PowerPoint or another tool of your preference with your opinion about them.  Answer these questions when writing your opinion. Use zero and first conditional: 1.  What do you think about the problem? 2.  What would be a possible solution for it? 3. Do you see this problem problem in your community? community? What do people do about it? 4. What will you do in the future future to help solve this problem? problem?

Every year tons of  are thrown into the ocean. This contaminates the water and affects ocean animals and their .

Every day thousands of newspapers are read and then disposed of in regular garbage. This increases the number of trees being cut to produce paper. If we recycled this paper, thousands of trees could be saved .

About 5 million tons of oil produced in the world go to the ocean at the end, contaminating the water and killing many species.

The human population is alarmingly growing, 100 years ago there were 2 billion people in the world. Now there are about 7.5 billion inhabitants!

97% of the   world’s  water is salty and therefore cannot be drunk. Just 1% of  the   world’s   water can be properly used. The remaining 2% is frozen.

Every hour, thousands of plastic bottles are used and of as regular garbage. Sadly, only a small portion of plastic bottles is recycled around the globe.

About 1 million sea animals die every year due to plastic thrown in to the ocean.

100 acres of  is cut every minute. If the trend continues, soon we will not have any rainforest left.

This is a problem that affects us all, since the contamination is on red alert here in the city of  Medellin by so much pollution of all people.

A possible solution would be that every week find a day in which is the day without motorcycle and car and a day of every two weeks that is cleaning the environment and also that all houses recycle.

Yes, this problem I see in my community for a long time and people say that it is very polluted atmosphere but they do nothing about it

I intend to participate in aid for the cleaning of rivers and ponds, wildlife and environmental management systems for both large and small companies to stabilize the planet's environmental system