The word environment meant the conditions we live in. Our environment is being polluted. That means that our living conditions are going to get worse, unless we change things. For example, the burning of fossil fuels pollutes our atmosphere, raising temperatures around the world. This smoke can also be dangerous to humans. We are also filling our oceans with plastic. Some of this is microplastic, which are plastic pieces that are small enough to be swallowed by fish. If the animal that eats this survives, we might catch it and eat it, harming ourselves. These plastics can even be so small that we breathe it in without even knowing it. However, we can still fix this. By cleaning our oceans, slowly transitioning to clean energy like nuclear energy, or renewable energy, like solar power, we can avoid burning off the rest of our fossil fuels, and polluting our atmosphere. Scientists are working towards creating machines to pull pollutants out of our atmosphere, so that once we stop burning fossil fuels, we can remove what we already released. Our youths can make positive changes too. We could plant trees, which remove carbon from our atmosphere naturally, and we can petition for better regulation of fossil fuels, until our nations are prepared to completely stop burning fossil fuels. Our environment is being threatened, and we need to stop its decline before we are too late.
