A bird which has a twisted beak, a fish which has a crooked back--one evening I saw them on TV with my family. The environmental program asked, "Can you take the responsibility for yourself in the future instead of these animals?" A Responsibility--the word made me feel the need to think--and I considered these things: the Green House Effect, nuclear pollution, and the extiction of species.
        The amount of carbon dioxide has increased for years continually, because our point of view about the environment was that men must use the environment. Many factories and cars were made during the Industrial Age. Carbon dioxide has one characteristic. If it gets in the atmosphere and it doesn't let the heat go out of the universe, the temperature increases every year. This is called the Green House Effect. The glaciers of the Arctic and the Antarctic regions are melting with the heat. The Green House Effect can be held back by us.
        Our society needs much electric energy, and nuclear power plants are more efficient than hydraulic or steam power plants. But nuclear power plants are also more dangerous than the others. Because of their danger of serious radioactive contamination, many people express their strong opposition to them. Actually, we have an example of residents who have suffered through the nuclear tests of the Soviet Union from the past. The problems of nuclear power are not each country's problems, but all the world's common ones.
        There are many species that only exist in name. Harmless insects and fish have disappeared because of soil pollution in the countryside, our birth place. The extiction has shown up not only in our country but also in other countries. There are some reservations for wild animals. I'm afraid that wild protection associations show us the seriousness of extiction of species.
        It's easy to forget the importance of our environment in our common life. But what if we can't live any more all of a sudden one day? Then we will feel how important our environment is with much regret. The Green House Effect, nuclear power plants and the extiction of species--we made these problems, and we can solve them, because human beings want to live forever with the word, responsibility. The illness of the environment creates all human illness.