英語検定ライティング準１級（第333回）

アジェンダ21「環境問題を受験に出すのは陳腐な話」

気候変動を防止するために個人レベルで何ができるだろう？この疑問に対して英語で自分の考えを書くように要求される受験生は多い。典型的なのは節電とか節水とかゴミの分別を徹底するとしか書けないと思う。環境保護団体の奉仕活動もあるか。
We should have something useful to do personally in the environmental viewpoints, which requires examinees to express what they have in their mind in the ecological perspectives, but we tend to assume that individuals’ personal efforts to be eco-friendly fail to outweigh frightening natural disastrous catastrophe without fail.
Despite this, examinees are forced to write something environment-conscious in English : electricity saving, water saving, and garbage sorting, which are something typical, and volunteer activities to be eco-minded.

英作文の問題は賛成か反対かを明記してその立場を支持する文章を英語で書けば良い。どちらでも良いのだが賛成で書く方が書きやすくなっている。環境問題に関して個人レベルでの努力はほぼ無駄に近いのだが無理やりにでも書くしかないんだな。
When examinees work on English compositions, they have only to make their positions clear at first, in short, what matters is whether they agree with the subject described above or not, but they would find it easier to express what they have in their mind when they are on the side of someone positive, an online article says.
Our small contributions to the earth cannot make any differences in the eco-conscious viewpoints, despite this, they must write something against their intentions.

日本は原発に依存できないので化石燃料の燃焼は削減できない。巨大地震が半年に一度起こるのだから原発を再稼働したら年に２回もメルトダウンする。風力発電は汚職で頓挫した。太陽光発電も詐欺で頓挫した。水力発電はかんばつで頓挫する。
Yesterday’s huge earthquake demonstrated that Japan shouldn’t make any nuclear power stations reworked, in other words, our nation cannot be dependent on the nuclear power generation, which means that it might be inevitable for Japan to keep burning fossil fuels forever.
We have had two experiences to suffer from immense and enormous earthquakes in January and in August.
We possibly could have suffered from deadly and lethal meltdowns twice with several nuclear power plants functioned again, which made Japan overwhelmed.
It isn’t the truth that renewable energy makes a vital difference in the environmental viewpoint : wind power generation cannot function due to the malicious political corruption, solar power generation cannot work well on account of the unforgivable land fraud and water power generation should be in danger because of drought.