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There has been an argument regarding the issue that government funds should be used to seek outer space rather than to deal with problems on Earth. There are myriads of people insist that we need to find another world that we can excavate and use for our future. But from my perspective, we should spend gorvernment funds to solve our own problems because there still serious concerns exist like poverty and environmental destruction.
First of all, there are many people who still suffered from the poverty. Certain parts of the earth like Africa, Southwest Asian countries are stil have a big problem in their food supply chain. They are keep asking to developed countries to support their countries by giving monetary helps like government funds, but developed countries denied to listen to their desperate request. For example, there are research conducted by Korean University verified that if developed country use their funds to those of poor countries, they can save at least 3 million people's lives in a year. This directly shows that government funds should be used for Earth's own problems especially poverty problems prior to exploring space.
Secondly, nowadays, there are environmental risks such as global warming, destruction of forest threat the human beings. These problems are mankind's top priority problems that we should get through. There are many species like polar bear which are endegered in extinction and certain countries like Moldive which are located in South part of the Earth are on the risks of floods and abrupt natural disaster. To demonstrate, there are study conducted by World Atmosphere Committe emphasized that earth's land getting smaller every year in a size of Hawaii Island. This is because of the water increase cuased by polar ice melting. This fact instruct us that in the earth, there are too many problems we need to deal with, and these issues should be sovled immedately.
To sum up, we need to use Government funds to solve problems of Earth. It is not a time to spend money to explore space. Those exploration should be conducted after solve the problems of Earth like poverty and environmental issues. |