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IELTS Essay: Individuals can do nothing to improve the environment; only governments and l...

Prompt

Individuals can do nothing to improve the environment; only governments and large companies can make a difference. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#individual_action#environmental_responsibility#systemic_change#government_role#corporate_accountability

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 9 argues that individual and institutional action are complementary: individual choices create political will for regulation while systemic change enables broader impact; Band 7 accepts one view as dominant.

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Key concepts in this essay

collective_action
market_mechanisms
policy_change_prerequisites
carbon_accounting
institutional_vs_individual_responsibility

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Downplaying individual actions (reducing personal carbon) as insignificant without recognizing their democratic signaling value
Not addressing how individual choices aggregate to create market demand that incentivizes corporate change
Failing to recognize that systemic change requires both top-down policy AND cultural shifts driven by individual awareness

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