▶ Your Answer :
Although there is
no complete consensus that has been reached on this topic, yet I would like to
take a stance with one of the given options that the most important action for
the government to take for protection of natural environment is pass and
enforce laws to reduce the pollution produced by companies and industries. In
order to substantiate my central focal points, I will provide specific reasons
and explore the given topic in great detail in this essay.
To begin with, I firmly believe
that the most important action for the government to take is enforcing laws to
reduce the pollution produced by companies and industries. This is because, it
is the fastest way to regulate and punish factors that going against protection
of natural environment. Opponents of my perspective claim that it would be
better to fund research on new energy resource or to preserve natural places.
Proponents of this view several points as the rationales for their argument and
their argument might have some validity. But after closer look, there exists an
abundance of examples that calling into question what they claim. Among such
examples, my personal experience can elucidate their incorrect viewpoint. I
used to live in Seoul, the capital of Korea. It was once became one of the
biggest issues in my town that pollutants from industries near my town contaminate
water severely and affect natural environment from many sides. Accordingly, one
of public organizations from my town claimed to enforce laws and regulate the
industries to reduce the pollutant emission from industries to the mayor of
Seoul. Consequently, the mayor enforced law for regulating the industries, and
pollutants are prominently reduced.
The account of mine that I
illustrated above is not the only evidence to support my view. A recent survey
conducted by one of the leading educational consulting firms in Korea endorsed
my opinion when the respondents were asked whether they sided with the argument
that the most important thing for government to take for protection of natural environment
is to pass and enforce laws to reduce the pollution produced by companies and
industries or not. A leading education expert claim that most of pollutants
which affect natural environment is from companies and industries. The expert
also states that according to the recent research, natural environment is
polluted from industries and companies from huge amounts of pollutants which
also involves high level of toxic materials. He also states that it is really
important to enforce laws for the companies and industries who take large part
of pollutants, because it is the fastest way of protecting natural environment.
In
conclusion, in spite of the fact that there may be some opinions that the
government must fund research on new energy resource or to preserve natural
places, taking into account all the factors that I described above, we may
reach to the conclusion that the government must enforce laws to regulate
companies and industries to reduce pollutants from them. |