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Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
The authour recommends rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future, governments should focus on sloving the immediate problems of today. I concede the recommendation with the respect that immediate social problems have their emergence and priority sometimes. Nevertheless, plotting for future problems is of same significance for human being. Besides, at most times, immediate problems and anticipated problems of the future are not necessarily contradicted.
Admittedly, there is no denying the fact that for government to focus on solving the immediate problems is imperative and indispensible. One can find a supporting example no further than looking into the Yaan Earthquake in China, which attacked Yaan this year with intensity of level 7 and caused many casualties and house destructions. When this natural disaster happened, what the government should do is leaving behind works that are not so urgent to accumulate all the possible resources nationwidely, including material resources and human resources, to save people still in danger and aid injuries in Yaan. In this case, any other anticipated problems deserve little attention compared with the immediate earthquake since only by competing with time to offer support for Yaan can lives be saved. If we miss the best time to help, injuries will never recover. The same logic goes for the financial crisis in Europe. Now Europian governments should focus on the immediate problem to make through the crisis to reduce unemployment rate and decrease suicide numbers caused by economic recession. Thereby, sometimes government should regard immediate problems rather than anticipated problems as the top priorities.
However, at the same time, anticipated problems of the future cannot be neglected since human bears acountibility and obligation for future. Firstly, everything human accomplished today is in the price of the future. Consider mineral resources. Many of the mineral resources are incapable of regeneration thus if those minerals are comsumed today, less will be left for the future generation. So actually all human do for their industry and manufacturing today is in the price of the future. Since we take things from the future, we have the responsibility to solve anticipated future problems. Secondly, thinking for coming generations is human nature just like that parents make all efforts to plot for their children. And it is exactly in this way that humankind persists surviving through natural competition and keeps thriving. And if human wants to hold this edgy in biosphere, thinking for the coming generations and trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future is of the same importance to solving immediate problems.
Furthermore, many fundamental problems for human society are actually immediate problems as well as anticipated problems for future so government is able to solve immediate problems while solving future problems at the same time. Take hunger and poverty for an instance. Though with the progress and the development of society, many people are getting wealthier and many more people are getting rid of starvation, hunger and poverty problems never dissapper throughout the history and these problems will persist in the future. So when government is working on poverty and hunger problems, they are working on problems immediate as well as long-term. The same principle goes for other problems such as suicide, umemployment and so on. Therefore sometimes it is reconciling for government to choose beween solving immediate problems or anticipated problems for future.
To sum up, the authour’s suggestion that governemnt should focus on solving immediate problems rather than anticipated problems of the future is reasonable while refering to those imperitive and emergent immediate problems. However, ignoring long-run problems render humankind irresponsilbe and put humandkind into an unfavorable position in development. Moreover, when governments are focusing on fundamental problems such as povery, hunger and suicide, they are dealing with immediate problems as well as future problems.
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发表于 2013-6-21 09:29:30
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