▶ Your Answer :
There is an argument whether governments
should pay more attention to the environment than health issues. I agree that
environmental issues are more important than health issues for governments for
the two reasons. First, environmental issues only can be effectively handled by
the government. Second, environmental issues also help to solve health issues.
To begin with, Governments can deal with
the environmental issues more effectively than the health issues. In general,
these days, people have more attention to their health and even do illicit
drugs to support their health. However, environments around the people are
usually not cared. This is because environments are not owned by any people but
shared by all the people. Governments can handle with above problems by
regulating behaviors of people or supporting environments including increasing
tress. To be specific, the article from Korean Times shows how important
governments' role is as mediators between environment and people. The article
pointed out that people are usually care about their own things including
health but things just shared by all the people including environments do not
cared as their own properties. In this regards, government should invest money
to solve environmental issues.
Moreover, environmental issues also help
health issues. Environmental issues usually include street, trees and air.
Therefore, if governments try to clean those factors in environment, people
obtain advantages of health from government's endeavor. According to the study
conducted by Harvard University, people who are more exposed to better
environment are healthier than those who are less exposed to better
environment. The example related to the study is smoking. People around people
smoking are more susceptible to get a cancer. The study also shows that
environment is very important and also helps people to keep healthier lives.
To sum up, I believe that governments
should have more attention to support the environment than the health issues
for the two reasons that I have mentioned above. First, government can take
care of environmental issues more effectively. Second, environmental issues
also have positive effect on health issues. |