Environment & Nature
Environment & Nature
Talking about environmental issues is a natural home for the subjunctive triggers you've built up — opinions, doubts, and necessity all come up constantly in this kind of discussion.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Necessity phrases about the environment lean on the subjunctive
es urgente que actuemos (it's urgent that we act) — an impersonal necessity expression, same pattern as es necesario que
it's urgent that we act — one of English's own surviving subjunctive spots
Discussions of environmental necessity reuse the impersonal expression + subjunctive pattern from your earlier lesson — es urgente que, es esencial que — since these are all statements about what should happen, not what is happening. This is a good vocabulary set to practice that grammar point in a realistic context.
Environmental nouns split unpredictably by gender, as always
el medio ambiente (the environment, masc.) but la naturaleza (nature, fem.)
the environment, nature — no article to predict from
As with household vocabulary earlier, don't expect these nouns' genders to follow any real-world logic — just learn each one with its article from the start, the same approach that's served you throughout this course.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
- English
- the environment
- English
- nature
- English
- climate change
- English
- to recycle
- English
- to pollute
- English
- the forest
- English
- the river
- English
- it's urgent that we act
- English
- sustainable
- English
- to protect