HW1: Write about it!

The More Crowded, the More Poluted

Were you born and raised in a big city? What is your feeling about your home town now? I would have a lot to tell if somebody asked me such questions.My country is quite small but my city is the biggest one of the country. I remember hanging out with kids in the neighborhood, it was so much fun. We could play soccer, hide and seek, ride the bikes, and do all of the kids things most of the time because it was quite spacious and the environment was so fresh. But now everything changes because there are so many people in the city.

It has been too crowded in my city because people want to come to make a better life. Life seems to be harder and harder. We now have to work very hard to make ends meet, to support our family. Years ago we were very easy to live because life was quite simple. The kids could walk or bike to shool, play around with the neighbor kids with things they could random get to have fun. We did not have to pay much for the tuition and other fees at school also. But now, thank to the technology we have so many devices to satisfy us in our daily life. Our children now need to have cars, or scooters to ride to school; they also want all of the advanced things such as computers, Ipods, cell phones, etc. For the parents, they want the best for their kids so it pushes us working harder to earn money. That is why my city is packed now. Everybody from different parts of the country has been moving to the city to get a better job so they can make more money. I feel uneasy everytime I want to go to somewhere because it is likely to have traffic most of the time. It takes bouble time to get to somewhere compare to the past, and you usually hear the horn from other vehicles. This makes me feel more depressed when you spend all day at work then have to stand that noise on the way home.

Another bad thing we have to live with is polution. There are lots of buildings and factories now in the city that make the air poluted. In the past, we could easy get fresh air when we got out for a walk, then we felt so relaxing. Now we cannot have it anaymore. Dust, smoke, and smell are everywhere. I feel my clothes have tons of dust on when I go outside a few hours, and it smells really bad. It is not surprising when we find more people have lung diseases. Other than that, reseach shows the environment does have the affact on our health, especially it can lead to cancer. Not only is the air poluted, the water is also affected. One time, many places in my city lacked of clean water. We had to pay through the nose to buy it, just clean water. It was because the chemical from the factories makes water in the city contaminated. It took a quite long time for the government to fix the problem.

Those are just two of a number of consequences that overpopulation can lead to. We now trying to build more factories in the countryside and other parts of the country so we have equal population everywhere. I think we, individual, should knowledge and try to make our environment fresher little by little by doing recycling and not throwing rubbish out on the street or river. This will have us avoid diseases that occurs when we do not keep the environment clean.