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By identifying the resource burden, the speaker here claims that longer average life span will ultimately diminish everyone’s life quality. However, in my view, this argument amounts to unfair generalization. I base my view on two reason. Firstly, the speaker ignores the increased efficiency brought by technology progress. Secondly, because the resources are always unevenly distributed, most of citizens in industrialized country can remain unaffected.
Consider the increased efficiency, the enormous burden on resources may not occur. Advances in the technologies have increased the efficiency, that is, the relationship between the inputs and outputs dramatically. Therefore, given a limited amount of resources today, we can produce much more outputs than even before, in turn, satisfy more people’s needs. If the amount of resources saving by technology is equal to or even exceeds that needed to supply people with longer average life, the resources burden will not occur, not to mention lower life quality.
Moreover, a lower amount of resources per person cannot be regarded as making everyone’s life worse. Virtually, life quality is more directly linked to disposable income at hand rather than average amount of resources because money is a key important factor in determining access to resources. Based on the statement above, the data gathered by American scholars provide good example against the speaker’s argument: GDP per capita in UK is 35580 dollars and life expectancy is 79 years, in Mexico 11,410 dollars and 76 years and in Mali 1,130 dollars and 50 years, representing a positive relationship between life span and people’s quality of life. Therefore, even the longer life span may lead to resources scarcity, people with a higher income can have priorities to enjoy resources, making their life quality not changed.
In sum, to suggest that increased life span and the quality of life are mutually exclusive is an oversimplification that ignores the increased productivity brought by advanced in technology and uneven resource distribution which depend primarily on people’s income. |
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发表于 2010-8-8 23:50:35
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