Explain some of the ways in which humans are damaging the environment. What can governments do to address these problems? What can individual people do?

It is true that the enviroment is beinng devastating directlly and indirectly by humans. Although there would undoubtably be some negative consequences of this trend, individuals and the government should take steps to mitigate these potential problems.As humans are destroying the natural world, several related problems can be anticipated. The main issue is that humans tend to overexploit the natural resources such as soil,sand and fossil fuels, thus, these resouces would appear to be seriously degraded. This means if humans do not reduce the dependence on enviromental resouces, these energy would be on the brink of exhaustion. Another problem is that many people seem to overuse and relying too much on plastic and unfriendly products such as plastic bags, means of transport running on gasoline and diesel. In fact, the exhaust emissions discharged by motorbikes and cars contribute to the greenhouse effect.Since such issues are serious, the government and individuals should take action to address these problems. The first solution would be the authorities should have some rules to inhibit and punish the ones who devastate the enviroment. For example, in Vietnam, the government enacted the rules that the one who uses the natural resouces without authority’s admission would pay a fine or even do time. In addition, every person should limit the use of plastic products and try to recycle and reuse these. For instance, consumers could bring silk bags to carry things instead of using plastic bags.In conclusion, there are various negative effects of damaging the natural world and appropriate steps need to be taken to tackle these problems.