Essay #448 "The Negative Effect of People’s Activities" 09.04.19 Most people agree that technological progress and the development of technology overall have provided a highly negative effect on our planet. However, many people believe that all this can safe our planet in future and basically this will have a very positive influence on a distance. Others, at the same time, believe that people are inherently evil and our interests and development just destroy our planet. In many cases people do not try to harm the Earth, but their activities often tend to be quite negative. This happens not only because of the neglection of the repercussions of their activities, but also because of the limited knowledge about some particular technology and its influences. Because failures and misconceptions are the imminent part of our progress we barely can diminish this aspect. Another point, is that people in order to make their lives easier have to adapt their environment and therefore change its initial state. So, there will always be some sort of confrontation between people and the nature, which is a natural way of life. However, people have gained an ability to affect their environment in a much more influential degree than other species. Also, over recent decades people has become much more environmentally conscious and try to mitigate the harm they have provided to the ecological state of our planet. That is why this is wrong to say that people do not try to help their planet. Many of us really care and really input all their effort into making the Earth cleaner and less polluted. To conclude, in spite of the fact that at the time the state of the environment is not the best and people are directly has been involved in its worsening, we have been showing a really positive tendency over recent decades. Most people have become much more environmentally conscious and try to revive the ecological system of our planet to its initial state. That is why, despite all the negative effect that has been provided by us, only we can resolve this issue and basically, this is our duty.