Ashley Bumgardner
Prof. Audrey Mayberry
ENLG 101
02/12/2023
Thesis: Mankind should be held responsible for the protection of the environment,
making the environment safe and suitable for life should be a main priority.
A. It is our responsibility to keep the environment that we live in safe for us and future
generations to come. Over the years people and countries alike have suffered at the hands
of humans when it comes to the environment, keeping it safe, and keeping it clean.
B. The environment needs protection because many plants and species are disappearing,
entire populations of rare animals are on the verge of extinction due to conditions
surrounding the environments that are not healthy to either animal or human.
C. Protecting the environment can benefit countries, animals, humans, and plant life alike.
By taking care of the environment, we would be taking care of ourselves and others.
Making life more suitable and better for future generations.
D. Mankind should be held responsible for the protection of the environment, by doing
his/her part in keeping the environment safe.
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Introduction
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How far should humans go to protect the environment?
A. Some people believe that the environment should not be protected and should even work
itself out. That each of us should care for ourselves and not the environment as they do
not believe that the environment is that bad.
B. Protecting the environment should be a priority for mankind as the environment has
many wonderful things to offer. When the environment is not doing well it can cause
things such as more risk for disease, it affects human health as well as other life,
ecosystems will also become unsafe.
C. Not one person should take it upon themselves to protect the environment, it should be a
team effort, all humankind should join in to help and make the environment safe for
generations to come, for a better place to live without the risk of hazardous disease and
pollution.
D. When it comes to people believing that the environment should not be protects should
also think about the life they live now. If the environment is destroyed, there would be
devastating outcomes. Food shortages, air pollution, sickness and disease, there are a lot
of factors that can play our if our environment is not protected to its fullest potential.
3. Conclusion Paragraph
A. Protecting the environment should be a priority in life to keep mankind, countries,
wildlife, and plants safe. Being as that is how we also survive, being as its food, water, or
the air we breathe.
B. Mankind should be a team, working together to protect the environment. Protecting the
environment can be done in many ways as people are not always willing to make
sacrifices but they are willing to try other options such as providing insight.
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C. People decide on how far they would go to protect the environment based on their
cognitive and affective evaluations of their lives.
Sites Cited
Meyer, R., & Liebe, U. (2010). Are the affluent prepared to pay for the planet?
Explaining willingness to pay for public and quasi-private environmental goods in
Switzerland. Population and Environment, 32(2019).
Suleimani, I. (2016). Are happier people more willing to make income sacrifices to
protect the environment? Social Indicators Research
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