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TOPIC:Do you agree or disagree: economic growth seems to be more important than environmental concerns.
The topic of how to push economic growth rebound has caused a wild public concern, especially in the economic depression period like now. We have to admit that economic activities sometimes lead to environment harm because of the natural resource exploitation and depletion. Some people prop the idea that the economic is the most important concern and the other people think this idea is unwise. From my opinion, the answer lies down there: The importance of environmental concerned should be more important than economic growth. If one did not get learned from history that injury of environment leads to incalculable loss, one could deduce it from general principles. Let us get down to analyzing the explanations to attest my reasons.
Firstly we can see the dimension from cost perspective. Remember the vivid example of nuclear explosion just happened in Japan? The area around the plant has been abandoned and people inhabited there must move to the other area. That's the visible cost. The explosion might cause genetic irregularity and damage the creatures that exposed to the radiation. The impact is not only just a short time of period, but a profound destroy and also hurt the offspring of the creatures. This invisible cost is even worse because no one knows how to tackle it so far.
Furthermore, the environmental crime probably become a reaction force and damage economic growth. According to a survey published by United Nations, the frequency of cataclysm, such as earthquake, avalanche and flood, tends to increase in recent years. It is evident that the root causes of these catastrophes are mostly derived from human activities, leading to the sea level elevation and global warming. If the devastating case always happens, it will definitely paralyze all activities, not to mention about the economic growth.
Some provident world powers have been aware of this issue and commence to seek for possible solutions. The pact which purpose is to reduce carbon emission has been signed off by many world leaders. Besides, some countries have adopted proper measures to curb the damage which caused by human activities in the nation. For example, Australia promotes tourism business without building up any factory, and Thailand develops creative and culture industry. These kind of cultural and natural resources are permanent, and also contribute to economic growth. We can learn from the instances above that the balance between economic and environmental protection is not impossible, as long as the government “has the willing” to find out the solutions, come out adequate proposals, and then execute them strictly.
All in all, all can see the priority between economic and environment is obvious since there are invisible and visible cost which is hardly to redress, and many well-developed countries already starts to take measures to protect the environment and develop the environment-friendly industry . Those reasons and examples all support my opinion, the environmental concerns should be more important than economic growth. |
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