Text 6в Problems оf Nature Protection

Nature protection is one of the major functions of each state and one of the most important problems of nowadays, as environmental, air and water pollution is extremely great, and this dangerous situation becomes worse with every passing year.

Moreover, high density of industrial enterprises and man's economic activities that destruct the ozone layer have done a serious damage to our planet.

Besides the exploration of outer space and mastering nuclear energy have made the relationship between man and nature still more complicated endangering the life on Earth.

The new Ukrainian Constitution, which was adopted by the Supreme Rada on June 28, 1996, assures the right to a safe and healthy environment and enacts a number of laws aimed at it.

Their main objects are to protect the biosphere from pollutants, to control the use of water and land reserves, to prohibit all activities threatening nature and guarantee the ecological security of the Ukrainians.

To implement these urgent tasks Ukraine must organize a real environmental protection and rational utilization of natural resources, develop new advanced technologies producing little or no waste, forecast the effect of human activities on the biosphere, etc.

That's why protection of nature resources and wildlife has become a great concern of our government, which founded the Ministries of Environment and Emergency Situations and a special Committee of the Verkhovna Rada dealing with these problems.

Their tasks are to control the state of surroundings, to prevent the pollution of nature and atmosphere, to safeguard the water areas of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian rivers and lakes, to extend the network of national reserves and to maintain cooperation with different international ecological organizations.

In Ukraine, a campaign for environment protection is widely supported by numerous public organizations and lots of individuals. The most active participant in this struggle is the Ukrainian Green Party, which publishes the ecological newspaper "The Green World" ("Zeleniy Svit"). The party calls on Ukrainians to keep nature and use it more carefully and economically, as our common goal is to preserve the generous and picturesque Ukrainian land for the present and future generations in all its beauty.

Great Britain also does its best to improve the ecological situation inside and outside the country. Responsibility for pollution rests with local and central government bodies. The British Cabinet of Ministers worked out the rules for the use of the Earth's atmosphere and carried out urgent legislative measures to prevent the greenhouse effect, which can lead to global warming and rise in sea level.

Only a strictly scientific approach to the industrial-technological development is able to settle all global and local ecological problems, as economic, social, technological and biological processes are closely interrelated nowadays, so we must consider them as a complicated ecological-economic system.

At present, more and more people throughout the world begin to understand that all countries of our planet are ecologically interdependent; therefore all nations must cooperate with each other in solving global ecological problems to secure our unique Earth. Either we shall stop killing the nature or we'll kill ourselves!

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1. Why is nature protection one of the most important problems of each state?

2. What destruct the ozone layer?

3. When was the new Ukrainian Constitution adopted?

4. What are the main objects concerning the nature protection?

5. What Ministry deals with the problems of nature protection?

6. What are the tasks of such Ministry?

7. What do you know about the Ukrainian Green Party?

8. What is able to settle all global and local ecological problems?

9. Why must all nations cooperate with each other in solving global ecological problems?

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А

Andrea: Did you hear the warning on the radio this morning?

Trevor: No. What warning?

Andrea: Apparently the air quality today will not meet recommended levels.

Trevor: What does that mean?

Andrea: It means that the air over the city is not moving at all. It's just like a thick cloud of polluted gas all around us.

Trevor: That sounds horrible!

Andrea: It is! Doctors recommend that the elderly and everyone with breathing difficulties should stay inside all day today.

Trevor: Oh dear! It sounds like we'll all have breathing difficulties soon if the air quality doesn't improve.

B

Dave: Oh, this is a waste of time! We've been fishing all morning and we haven't caught a thing.

Sam: Well, I'm not really surprised. I mean, look at this lake. It's a total mess. The only thing you're likely to catch in this water is a disease.

Dave: I just don't understand how it got so dirty.

Sam: Well, I suppose the local factories have been pumping their industrial waste into it.

Dave: I hate that. Look! Someone has been dumping rubbish! What sort of person would do that in such a beautiful spot?

Sam: Well, I wouldn't, but a lot of people simply don't care about the environment.

Dave: Oh, wait! I've caught something!

Sam: What is it? Let me see! Great - we can have fish for dinner.

Dave: Huh! It’s an old boot. Oh, I'm fed up with this. Let's go home.

Sam: I agree.