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IELTS Essay: Many people think it is very important to protect the environment but they ma...

Prompt

Many people think it is very important to protect the environment but they make no effort to do it themselves. Why do you think it is the case? What actions can be done to suggest individuals protect the environment?

#environmental apathy#behavior change#individual action#collective action problem#motivation

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 identifies psychological/practical reasons for inaction and suggests individual interventions, while Band 9 analyzes the structural incentive mismatch and proposes systemic interventions that enable individual action.

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Key concepts in this essay

tragedy of the commons
collective action problems
behavioral barriers
incentive design
social norm shifting

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Blaming individuals for laziness without exploring structural barriers (cost, convenience, access)
Proposing solutions (education, incentives) without explaining why these specific mechanisms overcome identified barriers
Treating individual and systemic action as mutually exclusive rather than complementary

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