Эссе ЕГЭ по английскому на тему «Экология и защита окружающей среды» — пример на 14 баллов

It is well known that protecting the environment is one of the most urgent issues of our time. I am doing a project on what teenagers in my city do to help, and I have found some data on this in the pie chart below. According to the chart, the response "Recycling waste" (35%) ranks ahead of all the other actions, closely followed by "Saving water and electricity" (28%). By contrast, only 9% of teenagers chose the active step "Volunteering for clean-ups". Looking more closely at the figures, one can note that the everyday habit "Recycling waste" is almost four times as popular as "Volunteering for clean-ups", as the difference between these two responses is 26 percentage points. This is quite explicable, given that sorting rubbish at home is easy, while volunteering takes real time and effort. However, this reveals a problem. It is simple to recycle at home, but far fewer teenagers are ready to give their time to real environmental projects. One way of solving this is to organise school clean-up days, so that helping nature becomes a normal part of student life. In my opinion, small daily habits matter, but they are not enough on their own, because real change also needs active involvement. Personally, I recycle and switch off the lights, and I have also joined a local clean-up once. All in all, the data shows that teenagers care about the planet, but they could turn their good intentions into action.