Individuals can do nothing to improve the environment; only governments and large companies can make a difference.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
It is argued that people are not able to help improve the environment because only big firms and governments can do such a thing. I do not concur with this view because although governments' policies can set laws to discipline firms and citizens, thereby play a compelling role in protecting the environment, individuals can still play a significant role too.
In this essay, the issues of plastic pollution and deforestation will be discussed.
The huge amount of plastic refuse which is produced every day has become a global and threatening issue for the Earth and its living beings. Environmentalists are playing a significant role in tackling this problem by sensitising the public to the problem, and some governments have played their part too. For example, in the UK, the introduction of a 5p on single-use plastic bags has caused an 85% drop in plastic bag usage. Outstanding results were reached by producing a BBC documentary series called "Blue Planet" which show the beauty of the oceans while denouncing plastic pollution. In fact, 85% of people who watched the series changed their lifestyles from being consumerist to being environmentally friendly. Thus, people who are not part of a government branch can still greatly contribute to saving the environment.
Deforestation is the main cause of the greenhouse effect and it has effects on the whole planet. A higher number of people is trying to reduce deforestation by protesting against it, cutting down meat, palm oil consumption, or protesting. For example, due to protests against it which drew global attention to the problem, intensive logging of threes in the Amazon has slowed. The collaboration of NGO like Greenpeace, big food companies and the Brazilian Government, has meant that a moratorium on logging has been set up. Therefore, it is evident that society as a whole has to fight to preserve the environment.
In conclusion, there is evidence that individuals or group of individuals have played a significant role in slowing down pollution and deforestation. However, a lot of work has yet to be done to save our planet.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 10, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s yet to be done to save our planet.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, still, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, in fact, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.3376753507 216% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1784.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17101449275 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14416473752 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 176.041082164 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56231884058 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5684760361 49.4020404114 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.5 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5625 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8125 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131353465791 0.244688304435 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0393175879112 0.084324248473 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508252031003 0.0667982634062 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0649972416387 0.151304729494 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.068909199509 0.056905535591 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.