ESSAY QUESTION Read the information below and write an argumentative essay in which you discuss relevant strategic and everyday choices that individuals make, and ways in which these choices may be shaped by external political intervention. GUIDING INFORMATION • Consider that you are in the position of a political strategists. Your are concerned with environmental behaviour with regard to one of the following topics: a) Reduction of petrol consumption and CO2 emissions of private car driving. b) Encourage Farmers to modify practices and apply soil conservation techniques. c) Reduction of battery waste of private households. d) Discouraging people to settle in flood zones. e) Convince allotment societies and individual gardeners to undertake action to increase biodiversity and to reduce chemical inputs in their gardens. • Discuss the actors’ environmental behaviour. What has to be done to promote behaviour change to reduce environmental impacts?