Rodeo Bagus Pratama

XII IPA 4/ 26

06-001-125

Keep Our Environment

Good morning to the Excellencies, my respected teachers and my dear friends. The topic
of my speech is Environment. Environment is the surrounding in which we live. It is the source
of life. Our whole life is dependent to the environment. It directs our life and determines our
proper growth and development. Good or bad quality of social life depends on the quality of our
natural environment. The need of human beings for food, water, shelter and other things depends
on the environment around us. There is a balanced natural cycle exists between environment and
lives of human beings, plants and animals. Human society is playing vital role in degenerating
the natural environment which in turn negatively affects the lives on this planet. All the human
actions in this modern world directly impact the whole ecosystem.

All the actions have brought a big change in this planet which resulted in many
environmental problems. Increasing demand of technologies and industries in the modern time
impacts the nature. The increasing invention of new technologies is important to every country
because it can develop the welfare of community in all fields. Because of Increasing invention of
new technology, every country start to develop big buildings like some factories. Factory can
increase economic growth in the country and also give impact to environment. Unfortunately It
can give some natural problems like air pollution, superfog, acid rain and etc.

Some of the environmental problems are rapid growth in world population, deteriorating
natural resources, diminishing forests and wetlands, erosion of soil and coral reefs, depleting
underground water, regular shortage of fresh drinking water, vanishing plants, salinization in
Africa, Asia, Latin America and Middle East. Some other issues are loss of biodiversity, rapid
extinction of some important animal species, collapse of fisheries, rising air and water pollution,
rise in atmospheric temperature, thinning of ozone layer, spoiling rivers, seas and underground
resources.

Bad behaviour from human society to the environment causes problem to the negative
impact. Some problems cause because of bad lifestyle . Example people always throwing the
trash to the river, doing illegal logging, and burning the forest. Moreover, awareness of people to
their environment is still low. People will aware to their environment after they affected a natural
problem for the result of damaged of environment. Low the awareness to keep our environment
can be caused due to lack of education. People don’t know that the activities which they are
doing is wrong because of the lack of socialization from the government.
 In the other side, some people says that environment problem is should be solved by
government . That is right, but this is not only solved by government, but also the human society
in that city should aware about environment problem. Government always try to solve the
environment problem but the human society doesn’t give their participate to help government. It
is never be able to solve environment problem because there is no support action from the
community and the government. Therefore, government program for solving the environment
problem will success if there is cooperation and support between the community and the
government.

To keep our environment from the damage, we can change our lifestyle that can give
benefit to the environment. We can start to dump and sort the trash according to its kind. We
dump the trash according to types of garbage, it is organic or anorganic. Then, we can do 3R
(reuse, reduce, recycle) for anorganic trash. This activitiy can reduce the anorganic trash like
plastic trash. To save our forest, we can start to do reforestation. Reforestation is forest trees in
the bare forest. Also, government have to give more socialization about keep environment to the
community so there is the support from the community to start keeping the environment.

Moreover, even though science and technology have radically altered the terms of
adaptation to the nature, we still need to adapt to the environment. Human society is embedded
in an environment. We must not forget that the human being is first and foremost an animal,
sharing living space with other animal species in an environment on which they are mutually
dependent. It is our responsibility to save our environment and earth and make the possibility of
healthy and happy life here.

Thank You