Question

With regard to preserving and protecting the environment, who has the most important role to play - government, individual consumers, or businesses and why?

Answer 1

• The work of actual protection has of course to be done by people, individuals. However, like every other area of life where one individual can threaten the health or well-being of other individuals, we in civilised society require laws to protect the many from the potential acts of the few.
• It is clear that government must create laws to protect the common good, and that includes environment protection.
  
• Past examples of beneficial government intervention include the banning of lead in gasoline. The control of asbestos as a building material. The national parks system, the regulation of pollution of waterways etc etc. The world in general, our country and our individual neighbourhoods are vulnerable to careless pollution, which will directly impact our health.
• But,yes according to me,the individuals play a major role in protecting the environment,since small steps taken by us can make a huge difference.The government can only do so much if the masses are unwilling to contribute. You could spend all of a government’s budget on cleaning up the environment and there would still be problems. However, it is the government’s responsibility to encourage the average person to engage in healthy behaviors, such as recycling.