Man's careless attitude is the main cause for the destruction of the

environment. Discuss. You should write at least 350 words. (60 marks)
In this modern civilization, man struggles to survive the high cost of
living expenses, which significantly increases with each passing
year. This causes them to use any method available that generates
income and they start to sideline the importance of preserving
nature. This is due to mankind realising the potential of economy
that can come from nature. So, I strongly believe the destruction of
nature is mostly caused by man's careless attitude whereby they
prioritise their greed for money and the development of civilisation.
Let us analyse this phenomenon in terms of the country's
development, illegal activities of exploiting nature and the job
opportunities.
First of all, many nations try to achieve the title of the most leading
nation in economy or infrastructure. So in order to compete with
other countries, most nations try to explore any available land in
their country for development such as industries, tourist spots and
many other purposes that are related to money. Whenever they see
the potential of a certain piece of land, they tend to develop it
despite some of these places might still be uninhabited or the home
for many wildlife. Sometimes, they would also plod through jungles
or level the mountains for road development which severely changes
the landscape of nature. As a result, this selfish and careless act will
cause the deforestation and global warming. For example, Indonesia
has become quite careless with their handling of these problems. In
Kalimantan, Indonesia, the forest is being severely deforested by
their people for land development. And to make matters worse, they
even choose the fastest and cos-saving method of deforestation
which is by burning down the trees, the mass release of carbon
dioxide from the mass burn down of trees lead to ozone thinning and
greenhouse effect. Also, the haze problem is another negative side
product. As for the real victims of these acts, they are the
neighbouring nations such as Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and
Philippines especially as haze causes many health issues such as
lung cancer and breathing problems. Therefore, these careless acts
and greed not only cause the destruction of nature but also
endanger many lives, both man and animals.
Secondly, some people's greed for great fortune and easy life make
them become selfish and careless by over-exploiting nature. They
willingly do illegal activities such as cutting down trees or animal

hunting, seeing the high demand for these materials. It will slowly
cause the depopulation of different kinds of flora and fauna. In
China, these activities of eating inner organs of animals such as
tiger or bear and they even use these animals' body parts for
economic purposes such as tiger skin, crocodile skin and elephant
teeth and tusks by exporting it to those who pay a high price for it.
This has a serious effect on the ecosystem which is the extinction of
animals. In Indonesia, trees are being cut down for making
expensive house furniture made of material such as teak wood. In
fact, these trees require a long period of 10 to 20 years to mature.
Thus, the continuous cutting down of trees will eventually lead to its
extinction. These activities are illegal by law and still occurs widely
despite many countermeasures that have been taken by the
authorised organisations such as World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Somehow, these criminals are able to slip through the
organisations's enforcement laws of protecting the wildlife and
nature. Plus, most society are careless to even take notice of these
problems because they have yet to come to awareness of the
dangers that would happen from these illegal acts. If only they had
given more attention and cooperation to the authorised
organisations, these problems might have been able to be
prevented.
Lastly, to survive in this modern world, every person needs to be
able to make a living for themselves of their family, but many people
with low education level cannot get high salary jobs, even university
scholars are yet to be certain of getting a proper job after their
graduation despite their high level of education. The competition is
just like the survival of the fittest among these graduates and
people with low qualifications. Therefore with the growing demand
for more natural materials such as petroleum gas and minerals from
the earth as well as a high demand of smuggled goods, people are
willing to pay high prices to have employees do their job of
exploiting nature because these jobs are high risk. So people that
are desperately in need of jobs are usually tempted with the pay and
they would take up the call. This situation had opened up a lot of job
opportunities, but they are careless to not realise that these jobs
are the main cause of nature's destructtion because they are being
pinned down by the pressure of high living cost in this modern world
that they have forgotten the importance of preserving nature.
In a nutshell, I still strongly believe in my opinion that nature's
destruction is mainly caused by man's careless attitude. They strive
to make a living in the world so desperately that some eventually

deny the truth that it is their own fault for nature's destruction. If no
serious and proper actions are being taken immediately by many
wildlife and nature preserving organisations or authorised
organisations such as WWF, UNESCO and ASEAN to prepare an
effective strategy or blueprint to prevent this problem, there
probably won't be any jungles or wildlife left in the future and our
young generaton will have to live in a polluted world.