IELTS, TOEFL and PTE Academic Writing Task, the Essay
The Essay Question:
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. Write at least 250 words.
The Essay:
Big corporates and governments alone can bring a positive shift in environment, whereas individuals cannot do anything to better it. I completely disagree with this view since individuals have made remarkable contributions in this regard.
First, many people around the world have been working alone ceaselessly for whatever cause is close to their heart, for bettering the environment successfully. Not only have they worked to improve the ecosystem but also mostly laboured all by themselves with little governmental support. For instance, the 72 year old Tulsi Gowda the recent coveted cilvilian Padma awardee in India, planted over 30,000 saplings and created a forest.
Second, independent workers often begin with little investment to take up their cleanliness projects for environment improvement and avoid bureaucratic red tape . They just begin from where they are, with what they have and get going. They more often than not, are subsequently supported by volunteers with finances and manpower and are victorious by their sheer grit and perseverance. To exemplify, the popular environmentalist of Punjab Balbir Singh Seechewala, cleaned up the river Kali Bein in the year 2000, with the assistance of only volunteers. Whereas large corporations or governments normally need great amount of resources to undertake most projects.
To conclude, according to me, it is not true that only governments and massive organisations can bring about a change for the improvement of environment and individuals cannot do anything. The large number of people independently doing the same with success, for the benefit of the ecosystem, clearly disproves the notion that solo they cannot achieve the task of restoring nature to its pristine glory.