Arguments for environmental protection
It can be very depressing to argue with someone who just doesn't want to see why it makes sense to put your own interests aside in favor of environmental protection. The following arguments will at least get said person to think.
That is why environmental protection is important
- Make it clear to your counterpart that we only have one planet and that whatever we destroy on this planet will remain destroyed for the time being. Nobody would think of demolishing the house in which they live.
- If your discussion partner doesn't care about the environment as such, you have to make it clear to him that the environment is and man are not two different, detached spheres, but that they are belong together. Environmental destruction costs human lives! Be it due to artificially induced droughts, floods caused by climate change or contaminated drinking water.
- Point out to your counterpart that environmental degradation can also have political consequences. One of the often forgotten arguments in favor of environmental protection is that if certain regions of the planet are caused by desertification, for example have become uninhabitable, the people who previously lived there will be relocated to other areas, leading to massive socio-political tensions can.
This is how you back up your arguments
- It always makes sense to back up your arguments for environmental protection with concrete facts. For example, if you want to convince your counterpart that there is a great benefit for the environment in quitting meat, facts are essential. So it is helpful to be able to state that for the Germans' appetite for beef mostly genetically modified soybeans are available An area that corresponds to the size of Austria can be cultivated on land that was once tropical rainforest before it was cleared was.
- It is also always very helpful if you can give examples that illustrate what happens when you are not careful about the environment. So your discussion partner will certainly have a harder time buying everything in plastic bags afterwards You pointed out to him the whirlpool of plastic garbage in the Pacific, which currently covers the area of Western Europe Has.
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