Luyện ngữ pháp - English Collocations in Use - Intermediate - (Unit 8: (Unit 1: Topics: Society and institutions)


Global problems

The environment

Look at these extracts from letters to an international magazine.
Your article on climate change was excellent. Rising sea levels and the increase in greenhouse gases1 are the result of our actions. We are disturbing the ecological balance everywhere, as can be seen in the decrease in fish stocks2 in the oceans. It is clear that we must tackle pollution before it is too late. Exhaust fumes from millions of vehicles and the burning of fossil fuels3 are causing irreparable4 damage to our environment.
We must accept that we have seriously depleted5 the ozone layer in the last few decades by our selfish actions. Embracing green politics may be our best hope in the long term, but we need urgent short-term measures too. Crops fail year after year in some of the poorest parts of the world. This has brought devastating6 famines to some regions and equally devastating floods to others. We call these natural disasters, but it is human beings who are causing them.

  • 1 gases which cause the greenhouse effect, especially carbon dioxide
  • 2 the number of fish
  • 3 fuels such as gas, coal and oil
  • 4 which cannot be repaired (also irreversible)
  • 5 reduced something in size or amount, especially supplies of energy, money, etc.
  • 6 causing a lot of damage or destruction
- Lesson 38: Exercise 38.4 - Lesson 39: B. Poverty


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