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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.
Currently, there is an increasing popular discussion among citizens whether the government is supposed to give precedence on immediate problems over anticipated ones. Some people manifest that the foundation of the solutions to future problems lies in the settlement ofcurrent fairs, others, however, place considerable emphasis on future problems. Standing at this intersection, I am inclined to hold aview that government should balance the concentration on both these two sorts of problems.
At first, immediate problems are so emergent that require the most effective and direct solutions. To take the subsistence problem as a case,although the average people residing in Europe and America are proved to enjoy a high life standard-health and safety, individual autonomy and freedom and cultural richness, most of Africans are still living a miserable life, faced with hazards of exposure and starvation. Here, the overriding imperative for governments of African nations is how to save their people from the fear of famine and then to improve the well-being of overall citizenry. We can imagine that once the government succeeds in getting out of this quandary, public disaffection will be greatly undermined and chances are slight that a "civil war" will be provoked between the people of the nation and the government military. Thus, the immediate problems which are of importance ought to be put at the first place when government formulate the plan for the nation.
Furthermore, the development of future could be guaranteed only if the current matters are figured out. According to Socrates, the future comes from the present, which can be well applied to this point. The policy enhancing persistent development is a good case. In order to maintain the ever-increasing trend, the government officials as well as biologists put forward with the perspective that humans must be friendly to the environment since human beings and the nature are vexingly interwound. Specifically, the release of carbon dioxide, a major kind of greenhouse gas, derived from processes of industrialized production, is gradually depleting our ozone sphere and heating the earth's atmosphere, thus causing unredeemable consequences. Accordingly, the global warming casts threatens to the coastal countries and ones in island by the increasing sea level. Besides, the anomalous climate on the planet also does harm to the agriculture,transportation business, and so on. These exert large negative influence on the economy of the nation and people's life, not mention the future development. In the sake of sustainable progress, an unavoidable task for the government is setting up powerful measures to deal with the environmental issues.
However, any government that is blind to the anticipated problems cannot afford it, either. In the aim to get the largest benefits, the government should set sight over the whole circumstances. It becomes justifiable to sacrifice some current merits to boost the larger value in the future. For instance, the Three Gorges, a world-famous water conservancy project used for storing water and preventing floods, received enormous disagreement at the beginning of its construction. Contending that the project compels the transmigration of the inhabitants living along the Yangtze River, a relatively big number of experts challenged this decision. While having considering cautiously the intriguing benefits brought to the next generations, such as the protection of the regions in the following reach and its potential in electricity generation,the government ultimately launched the plan in 1994. Luckily, it turns out that it results in the larger interests in the long term when giving away some present benefits.
By the way, the hardship can be met if we are bigoted to solve the immediate troubles because of their complexity. Therefore, we have to put these vexing problems into the list attached the label of long run plans. The population in China is the one that stricks me at this moment. Left by the historical causes, China is now encountering one of its most serious and knotty problems. It is also the root of the matter of employment and the gap between the rich and the poor. In spite of the implementation of birth control policy for approximately half a century, the number of the population is still soaring, which is predicted to rise up to 1.4 billion at the start of 2015. Yet we fails to take any other effective measures to hamper its increment but wait to witness the sluggish effects of the current policy(as time elapse, the increasing rate of population may be slowed down and even below zero). So, under this case, the immediate problems are faced with too many barriers to be settled down.
In a nutshell, from what has been discussed above, we could apparently become aware of the urge to solve the immediate problems, which, however, may be prevented to be worked out with considering of some other occasions like the Three Gorgers and the complexity of some current fairs. On the other hand, pondering the overall circumstances, the anticipated ones are equally significant. The government needs to be alert to the vagarious conditions of both current and anticipated problems,thus pays concern according to the different traits of cases. Only adopting a balance of the two directions will the government make it to shape a brighter future for its citizens.
提纲:
1.时间紧迫,急需解决(subsistence problem)
2.解决好现在,才能保证未来的发展(co2排放,环境,资源)
3.政府应该用长远目光看问题,有时需要牺牲部分利益(the Three Gorges)
4.有些问题难以解决需从长计议(人口多,birth control,就业,贫富差距)
结论:所以需要balance,不同问题不同对待。
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