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+ | __Waste production__ | ||
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+ | In France, the easiest way to demonstrate that you are environmentally friendly is to recycle. Most of people do it, but not everybody. However, French people used to produce 360 kg (793.66 lb pounds) waste per capita in 2006. All in all (per capita and industry) 445,8 millions | ||
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+ | Typical scene which led to a tax of 90 cents (71p) per kilogram being placed on plastic and paper throwaway cups in France | ||
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+ | __Public transportation__ | ||
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+ | The public transportation system is well-developed in big cities like Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, and so on. Using public transportation is cheaper than driving and less damaging to the environment. | ||
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+ | A photography of an electric bus in Lyon, called ' | ||
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+ | The system in Lyon however uses a combination of metro lines, tramlines and bus routes which stop at more than 2000 places. | ||
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+ | An other way to travel in Lyon without polluting, the tramway | ||
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+ | There are advantages to public transportation for example like avoiding hold-ups but it has also drawbacks: Public transportation is not always comfortable and practical. Actually, you may have to take three different sets of transportation, | ||
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+ | French train station in the countryside where one may wait 4 or five hours before getting a train. | ||
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+ | There are often a lot of people using public transportation and we can not always have a seat. This is a disadvantage especially for pregnant women, elderly persons or even if you are an adult with young children. | ||
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+ | In the country-side public transportation is not really developed as it is in the towns. However, there are some towns where the local transportation network allows you to do the shopping, go to school, and access different convenience stores without having a car. | ||
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+ | Peak-time chaos on the metro | ||
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+ | In most French towns, there is no public transportation during the evening, roughly between 7p.m and 6a.m. That’s why you need a car as transportation. | ||
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+ | __Alternatives to public transportation__ | ||
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+ | There is an alternative to having cars which add to pollution. | ||
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+ | There are also the hybrid vehicle which have two different motors: an electric one and a thermic one. Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | A photography of the Toyota Prius, an hybrid vehicle | ||
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+ | __Organic food__ | ||
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+ | More and more we also have large supermarkets with little departments specializing in organic food. Products are mostly free from chemical products and mostly come from fair trade. | ||
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+ | Using products grown without the use of fertilizer is better for the environment, | ||
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+ | A department specialized in organic food | ||
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+ | There are many ways in which we can be environmentally responsible but It is difficult to do so. It is really expensive to be ecologically responsible. | ||
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+ | France is really slow to change and become green like Germany, Sweden, Norway... There is however an environmental Party which is represented at every election. They only receive a few votes but those votes show that some people do care. Their logo is seen below. | ||
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+ | __Conclusion__ | ||
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+ | Even if there are more and more ecological behaviours from governments, | ||
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+ | When we talk about ‘environment’ we firstly mean nature, but it also concern human health. Actually, science brought us so many advantages when we compare the industrialized countries to the other ones. Life expectancy has incredibly increase these previous centuries. However we can observate new diseases of the century because of our way of living. It deals with our alimentation, | ||
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+ | For example, because of the distater that happened a month ago in Japan, there will be probably a huge impact on nature, animals, but also on human’s health. It was what happened after Chernobyl disaster. Japan politicians and scientitists wants to be reassuring but we have to face the truth and do something about it. We have already cross the line. Now we should revolt against nuclear and focus on alternatives. | ||
+ | However, there are too many economical stakes. For this reason, it’s hard to expect something from politicians. On my mind, if we don’t act as we can, by ourselves, things would not change as fast as they need to. | ||
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+ | It is hard to be enthusiastic about this current topic. However it concerns each one of us so that we all must to act in order to ameliorate our way of living and to put right what we have already done against our planet. |