2. “It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Whether international leadership and worldwide cooperation should be instrumental in protecting world’s energy resources is a controversial issue that draws many attentions recent years. Proponent argues that one powerful nation should take the lead position and organize the worldwide conservancy, and the opponent claim that some individual nations need to make sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. I agree that in some cases one nation have to sacrifice on the world’s behalf, however, generally speaking, I believe effective leadership is crucial to the conservancy.
The primary reason for my view is that developing countries are home to scarce resources or important ecosystems, and these resources are decisive factors of their economic development. Therefore, it is really unrealistic for these countries to compromise too much on account of their extensive economic mode. Moreover, these countries are also poor and heavily polluted, thus it is a challenge to scientists and environment experts to create a conservancy system suitable for these countries. As mentioned above, it is impractical to expect resource-possessed counties to sacrifice and protect worldwide environment.
Another reason for my view is that leadership and cooperation always lead to efficiency and fairness, while anarchy generally causes turmoil and chaos. A case in point is OPEC, an organization of eleven developing counties heavily relied on oil revenues, successfully bring stability and harmony to the world oil market by adjusting oil-producing counties’ outputs. On the other hand, Indonesia organized a forest management system which intends to protect tropical forest. But the system ends in chaos because of inefficient management, which can be avoided if one center organization were in charge of the system.
Those who oppose the international alliance and collaboration may point out that superpowers, most of which are developed countries and consume large proportion of the word’s energy, will take manipulate the leadership and formulate policies in favor of themselves. Yet I admit the potentiality, I still believe collaboration is superior. Superpowers also care about the global ecosystem and resources because their final interests are disconnected with the global resources.
In conclusion, it appears that particular sacrifice of some nations is beneficial to the resource conservancy. However, as I have analyzed above, collaboration and alliance are much more reasonable. Therefore we can safely draw the conclusion that international leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential to protect the world’s resources for the future generations. |