pressing, urgent and requiring immediate attention, habitat destruction, the damage or removal of the natural environment where plants and animals live, carbon emissions, the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, fast fashion garments, cheap, trendy clothes produced quickly to match current fashion trends, resource extraction, the process of removing natural resources (such as minerals, oil, or timber) from the Earth, ecosystem disruption, a disturbance that damages the balance and normal functioning of a natural environment, obsolescence, the process of becoming outdated or no longer useful, often intentionally planned, durability, the ability of something to last a long time without breaking or wearing out, depleted, reduced in amount; used up almost completely, exacerbate, to make a problem or situation worse, single-use plastics, plastic products designed to be used once and then thrown away, discarded, thrown away or no longer wanted, dispose of, to get rid of something, especially by throwing it away, non-biodegradable, not able to break down naturally in the environment, landfills, large areas of land where waste is buried, carbon footprint, the total amount of greenhouse gases produced by a person, product, or activity, degradation, the process of becoming worse in quality or condition, impulse buying, the act of purchasing something suddenly without planning

Lesson 4. Task 2. Environment

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