▶ Your Answer : In this immensly developed society, environment has been considered as one of the most significant issues. There has been a controversy that is it acceptable for government to ignore environmental concerns to promote economic growths. Some people might insist that it is acceptable for the government to neglect environmental problems to accelarate economic growths because steady and convinient life of public is important. However, I have an opposite insistence to this. In this essay, I will present two reasons to support my idea. To begin with, ignoring environmental due to just economic growth threats public health. As I mentioned, some might says that people’s life could becom far convinient if economy grew. Nevertheless, even though they has a lots of money, if they are not healthy, their life can’t be said as convinient and great life. In 19th centuries, when industrialization finished, there were inconceivable amount of industrial wastes were produced in Korea. Polluted air and water bothered people and even mortality of that year was the peak. Like this, inordinate desire to make economic growth don’t considering environmental concerns made disasters to public’s health and country. On top of that, if government focus on economical growths that don’t consider environment would result in greater economic loss in the long run. Once badly devastated environment is indeed difficult to be recovered since there are limitation to recover itself. So, government has to spend more money to clean up later. To be specific, if the government earned 100 billions of dollars by economic growth, they has to spend more than that much of money to recover damaged envirnoment. In the other word, it is a certain economical loss for the government. Therefore, government’s promotion for economic growth without concerns of environment is not acceptable. To sum up, threaten of public health and greater economic loss in the ling run could be resulted from policy of economic growth without concening envirinmeatal problems. For these reasons, I disagree with the statement that it is acceptable for government to neglect envionmental concerns to promote economic growth. |