Explain some of the ways in which humans are damaging the environment What can governments do to address these problems What can individual people do

Environment protection has been a heated discussion ever since human beings entered the Era of Industry. Many experts now claim that our environment is under great threats, many of which are related to human activities. In this essay, I will list some of the causes resulting to environmental deterioration, and try to explore some possible actions so simple that even a single society member can take to protect our planet.

Needless to say, global warming arising from our dependence on fossil fuel is getting severe these days. The unstoppable advances in technology not only greatly enhance our living standards, but encourage materialism as well, including people's preferences to buy private cars, dependence on electrical devices such as air conditioners and refrigerators. All of them add to soaring amounts of carbon dioxide emissions.

Besides that, deforestation for more farming lands has put our world under the threat of desertification. Some scientists estimate that one-third of our world's arable lands have turned into deserts. Heavy use of all sorts of fertilizers degrades the soil, pollutes our drinking water. Last but not least, endangered animals and plants are disappearing at an alarming rate, since human constructions like office buildings, dams, and wind farms interfere with many animals’ migration patterns, posing dangers to other animals on the food chain.

However, I believe even some simple changes from the individual level can make a change to delay, even reverse many damages caused by humans. These changes include more use of recyclable bags instead of plastic ones when shopping, eating more vegetables instead of meat since the latter takes as much as 5 times of resources to grow than the former. When going home from work, people can rely more on public transportations such as buses, subways, bicycles from the bike-sharing scheme, all of which are clean, affordable, and environmental-friendly.

To sum up, even if we have damaged the environment in many ways, simple changes in our life still play an important role to protect it.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 248, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
... activities. In this essay, I will list some of the causes resulting to environmental deter...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, however, if, so, still, third, well, even so, such as, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 13.1623246493 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1761.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 330.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33636363636 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01192152256 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.669696969697 0.561755894193 119% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 506.74238477 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5620228149 49.4020404114 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.785714286 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 7.06120827912 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.136244599942 0.244688304435 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0425318721029 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0369218522889 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0700104998691 0.151304729494 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0462703745057 0.056905535591 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.9 8.58950901804 115% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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