英語検定ライティング準１級（第299回）

夕刊廃止「材料費と輸送費の高騰が原因」

新聞という大衆媒体は何年も前から発行部数が減少している。インターネットの普及以外にその要因は考えられない。だが夕刊が完全に廃業するという事実は時代の流れを感じさせる。
A newspaper is a kind of mass media, whose number of copies published has become smaller and smaller in our society in recent years, an online article says.
A news program on TV reports that the sales of the evening newspapers would stop business in Kyushu district from now on, for which the developments and advancements of the information technology has been responsible in recent years, but this fact demonstrates that we should keep up with the flow of the times.

新聞は紙でできている。紙は木からできている。木を使うことは森林伐採に拍車をかける。それは二酸化炭素の吸収を阻害することだ。つまりは気候変動の原因の１つに数えられるのだ。
A newspaper is made of paper, and paper is made of wood, and utilizing numerous timbers might make a negative difference in the deforestation viewpoint, which prevents carbon dioxide from being absorbed in the process of photosyntheses, and these phenomena might be one of the serious causes of climate change, he says.

輸送の中には夕方の新聞配達も含まれる。単車での配達はガソリンを燃やす。つまり二酸化炭素の排出につながる。結局は地球温暖化に拍車をかけるのだ。環境保護の点では悪くない。
An evening newspaper is delivered by the motorcycle, a kind of transportation, and the deliverers naturally burn a certain amount of gasoline, which could result in carbon dioxide emissions, and this phenomenon makes negative contributions to global warming after all, an expert says.
Finally, this disappointing incident described above makes a little difference in the environmental viewpoint.

今回は夕刊に限定されるので大きな驚きではない。朝刊が廃止されたらそれこそ一大事だろう。ガソリンが高すぎるのでロシアからの原油の輸入は解禁してほしい。戦争もやめてほしい。
When the morning newspapers should stop business, we must consider these reports as something catastrophic.
But the evening newspapers couldn’t make negative contributions to numerous senior citizens without any digital devices like a smartphone because they are unlikely to be dependent on the Internet news contents.
Various kinds of ordinary citizens wish that Japan would import petroleum from Russia because the oil expense has been too high, simultaneously, their invasion should stop immediately because the wheat price is too high.