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发表于 2012-12-7 21:51:48
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12.7 Do you agree or disagree: economic growth seems to be more important than environmental concerns
Have you ever heard the news about that people are killed by drinking the polluted water? Have you ever watched TV which were reporting the severe flooding and its serious consequence—— people killed and possession damaged. Have you ever noticed that economic growth is based on the materials from natural such as oil, trees, coal. If you have ever had experience above, you would know how important protecting environment is.
As we all know, health is the most valuable wealth we have. We cannot emphasize the importance of our health too much. Our body health is based on suitable habitats provided by the environment. However, if we count economic growth more important than environment concerns, pollution caused by industrial manufacturing will beyond the environment capacity. As a result, over-polluted environment will do harm to human health. One of the most common pollution is air pollution ,which often produced by power plants, manufacturing facilities, and fuel-burning heating devices. Air pollution can cause health problem such as heart disease, respiratory infection.and lung cancer. What’s more, some authority published that 2.4 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution. So,we cannot under value environment when comparing with economic. In addition, there is no denying that natural disaster is the most destructive things ,such as flood ,drought and global warming. these disaster can destroyed homes ,furnitures and corps in a few hours ,which would take us very long time to created. Therefore, these disasters will cause very serious economic loss. Natural disasters are closely related to environment destruction. For instance,many extensive flooding is cause by deforestation. So, we should concern environment protection not less than economic growth, because environment is the security of economy.
Last but not least, natural resource is the engine of our society’s economic growth. The natural provide us everything we need. From clothes to food,from building materials to fuel resource. We can not survive without plants,animals and many other materials from environment, not even mentioning economic growth. It is no doubt that our economic even our human society based on our environment. So, how can we say that economic growth is more important than environmental concerns?
In conclusion, as our economic growth depend on environment, there is no reason to say that economic growth is more important than environmental concerns. |
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