Many people are active in fighting against unfair treatment to colored people, women , animals and so on. Right now I am talking about fighting for respect to our environment. Though the environment doesn’t have a mouth to deprecate what humans have done to her, she retaliates through action. In the early years the Chinese cut down large quantities of trees, at the source of the yellow river, which led to the disappearance of big forests and terrible floods. As a result，the Huangtu plateau which was once covered with grass and forests was turned into barrens that supported fewer plants. Another example was in several developed countries. Because many chemical factories discharged poisonous gas without filtering it, cities were covered with so much poisonous gas that people were killed by the air they breathed in. What horrible scene!
What we are suffering is only a small part of what the nature once suffered. If we don’t take action to show respect to the environment, we will have to face an increasingly awful situation.
Measures should be taken to protect the environment on which we are relying. First governments should forbid destroying vegetation, rivers and lakes, oceans, as and the atmosphere as well. Second voices should be made to announce the public of the importance of protecting the environment. Third enterprises should pay special attention to the effect they have on the environment and work out solutions for the problems.
Only by changing the way we treat the environment can we get along well with it. Only by saving the environment can we save ourselves.
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很多人都活跃在对抗不公平待遇有色人种、妇女、动物等。现在我谈论要争取尊重我们的环境。尽管环境没有嘴巴来反对人类对她所做的一切，她通过行动来报复。在早些年中国人在黄河的源头大量砍伐树木，导致了大森林的消失和可怕的洪水。结果，曾经一度覆盖草地和森林的黄土高原变成了植物稀少的荒漠。另一个例子是在一些发达国家。因为许多化学工厂没有过滤就排放有毒气体，城市充满了如此多的有毒气体，人们通过呼吸这些空气收到伤害。这是多么可怕的场景!
我们所痛苦的是只有一小部分的自然曾经收到破坏。如果我们不采取行动，尊重环境，我们将不得不面对一个日益糟糕的情形。
保护环境应采取我们依赖的措施。首先政府应该禁止污染植被、河流和湖泊、海洋和大气。第二，应该宣布公众保护环境的重要性。第三，企业应特别注意对环境的影响和解决方案的问题。
只有通过改变我们对待环境的方式，我们才可以相处得很好。只有拯救环境，我们才能拯救我们自己。