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IELTS Essay: Governments should make people responsible for looking after their own local ...

Prompt

Governments should make people responsible for looking after their own local environment. Do you agree or disagree?

#local_environmental_responsibility#government_role#community_stewardship#accountability#decentralization

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 9 distinguishes local issues (waste management, pollution) requiring local responsibility from global issues (climate, species migration) requiring government/international coordination; Band 7 treats all environmental action as primarily local.

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Key concepts in this essay

subsidiarity
local_vs_global_environmental_issues
community_capacity
governance_structures
shared_responsibility

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Not addressing scale mismatch: local action cannot solve global problems like climate change or ocean pollution
Failing to consider resource inequalities across regions in determining who can afford local environmental care
Oversimplifying without examining government's responsibility for large-scale infrastructure and regulation

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