双边类大作文，环境类话题
Some people think environmental problems are too big for individuals to solve. Others, however, think that those problems cannot be solved unless individuals take some action. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
题目来源：2021年12月11日大陆雅思大作文（重复2014年7月26日大陆考题）
题目大意
有些人认为环境问题太大个人无法解决，然而其他人认为如果个人不采取行动环境问题将无法解决，讨论双方观点。
思路解析
这是一道双边类大作文，讨论的是个人对于环境保护的作用。双边讨论类的题目，可以自由讨论双方各自的利弊，你可以同意某一方观点也可以持中立（都同意或都反对）。题目理解上并不难，两方观点在一定程度上都有合理性，下面就和大家一起来看下具体观点。
首先来看甲方观点，有的环保问题确实不是个人所能解决的，而是需要企业、政府和国际社会共同努力。比如工厂在生产过程中造成的污染排放，个人很难有力量去制止工厂，如果想要治理，一方面需要工厂自己能够采用环保的手段对废气废水等污染物进行处理后再排放，另一方面需要政府层面出台政策和法规来要求工厂执行和遵守，而对于那些违反规定的工厂则需要政府和执法机构实施处罚。而当遇到全球变暖甚至末日电影中描绘的极端气候等环境问题时，往往需要各国政府共同制定策略和投入资金来应对，无论是制定节能减排的目标并执行，还是开发新能源或其他新技术，都不是个人所能实施的。
然后来看个人层面所能做的贡献，虽然个体力量看上去微不足道，但是如果大家都能采取行动，所能产生的效果依然是巨大的。比如人们在日常出行中更多的乘坐公共交通或新能源车来替代传统能源的私家车，能够减少私家车所带来的废气排放。如果大家在扔垃圾时能实施垃圾分类并且拒绝将垃圾随意丢弃在河流、海洋等自然环境中，无疑是在为减少环境污染做出贡献。说到底，即使政府做出了某项利于环境的决策，最后依然需要每一个人来遵守并付出实际行动。
提纲
范文示例
Such are the scenarios in our highly developed daily life: the smog is smearing the sky, and the car horns are blaring all day long, whilst in the places away from humans, animals are dying, and wild fields are being laid waste. Therefore, moralists are coming out to call for possible solutions in dealing with all the environmental problems, but we, the overwhelming individuals, are still confused about what we can actually do for bettering the environment.
The controversy concerning the actual relationship between individuals and the environment may source from how we see the role of ourselves played in the nature. Right now, the Hollywood depiction of how our human is helpless, vulnerable and petty when facing the global environmental disasters has already reflected a thinking held by certain people, and that is that we could barely do anything if the environment deteriorated into an unchangeable, irreversible condition. The worst-case scenario might be akin to that in the movie “the day after tomorrow”, where the whole world had gone through a brand-new Ice Age due to the global warming, during which the entire northern hemisphere had been suffering from natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, and the mankind had been totally forcibly controlled; should the collapse happen to the protein-based, civilized world, it is obvious how the latter is powerless and how the outcome will be.
The myopic thinking exhibited in the paragraph above, as others would argue, is the rankest of all. This type of thinking doesn’t allow people to make the rational causal relation between human behaviours and the environment that may be affected and robs them of the opportunity to recognize the potential of the accumulated efforts that lies. Individuals are certainly not that useless, and it is just what every common person could do that lays the foundation of the reasoning that follows. Certain actions or personal movements may not seem like much and certainly needn’t to expect a change of the problems. However, sets of related efforts and trials grouped together are what constitute insights into new discoveries, which one day may also be the cornerstone of other even more crucial breakthroughs. Actually, we humans, as the solely naturally inquisitive and rational beings in the world, seem to be the only species that could be relied on to take actions—to reasonably consume the resources, to avoid the over emission of pollutants, etc.—or the potential environmental threats may otherwise increase definitely; the movie-depicting catastrophes happen someday.
In conclusion, I would very much agree that there are certainly reasons out there why individuals are not out of the cluster of the determinants of environmental problems, and we certainly need to start playing a part in preventing the natural disasters right now since it is the only way to make things better.
相关词汇和语法结构
Smear 涂抹
Horn 汽笛声
Blare 响动
Moralist 卫道士
Depiction 描绘
