The environment is all the things we need to be able to live - clear water to drink and to wash with, air to breathe and healthy food to eat. we can't live without plants and animals. they help to make the soil, they clean water and air, and they give us all our food. the world is our home and we want to see it clean and beautiful. at the same time we take from nature as much as we can. we cut down forests and build farms, houses, road and factories on the land. while doing it we pollute the environment. we make a lot of waste, some of which is toxic. we dump domestic and industrial waste in the country and pour toxic waste into our rivers, seas and oceans. cars and factories, plants and power stations pollute the air anamareit dangerous to breathe. people have to think about all these ecological problems if they 'want to survive.
