▶ Your Answer : Opinion might be divided over whether the
government should consider environmental problems when they improve healthcare.
People may take diverse position on this controversial issue by the age and
occupation. I side with the perspective that environmental problems should be
taken into consideration for the following two reasons: first, solving
environmental problems can lead to reduce health problems. In addition,
environmental problems are big issues nowadays.
To begin with, investing to release
environmental problems is more effective than improving healthcare. To be
specific, the better environment is, the more people would be healthy. What
this means is to catch two birds with one stone. There are many articles which
reaffirm my viewpoint. A few days ago, I read an op-ed piece from the Korea
Herald that is related to the topic. The article described the result of a
survey, which was conducted by Seoul National University social science
researchers with more than 500 people as respondents. A government in Korea
recently made a new regulation about cars for decreasing the smoke. The purpose
of the survey was to understand the consensus view about correlation between
environment and health. Of the 500-people surveyed, over 80 percent answered
that they recovered respiratory aliments before they had been suffering from.
This was the due to the fact that limitation of car purified the air in the
region. This clearly proves that solving environmental problems could made positive effect on healthcare.
On top of that, environmental problems are
more serious than we think in modern society. The government have been
concentrating on healthcare for people for a long time. However, they recently
started taking an interest in environmental problems. Thus, they should spend
their time in environmental problems now. I will bring up my personal story as
an example. When I was a child, I often went to a beach and enjoyed swimming
without any problems. However, I recently had a skin disease after swimming in
that area. I realized that the ocean was contaminated. If the government had
solved the pollution in the beach, I would not have this skin disease now. The
same applies to most people who have this problem like me.
In conclusion, solving environmental
problems can not only lead to reduce health problems, but environmental
problems are also big issues nowadays. In this regard, I strongly believe that
It is more important for the government to focus on solving environmental
problems than improving healthcare. |