In this rapidly changing world, space exploration has become fascinating issue of government. Although technological developments in science including making space ships, mars exploration and so on are crucial to human beings, I would disagree that governments funds their space exploration projects. This is because saving human lives is more imperative and restoring the damaged environment is more important.
To begin with, saving unpreviliged people is a problem that comes befor any other ones. This is especially true because large number of people even in developed countries are dying since the shortage of staples due to their governments are spending money on space exploration. As the study conducted by UNICEF shows that 30 percents of children in Africa are suffering from undernorishment caused by extreme poverty. However, presidents in Africa are planning to make their first space shuttle not realizing the significance of their nation people's demanding situation. Governments are only interested in funding for future generation not the current ones. As we can see on the study, lots of people in the world are in the impending position of survival so their governments have to fund their basic needs such as fresh water and foods.
In addition, restoring the damaged environment is a more pressing issue. This is largely due to the fact that fresh air, clean and hygine water are indispensable for survival of people, especially for poor people. However, nowadays the environment is polluted by human activities that will have a negative affect on gaining human's basic needs. The best example of this is trees in Amazon at South America. The government of Brazil has developed the tropical rain forest of Amazon in order to increase nation profits such as making timber by huge number of trees. However, the negative effect of this development is so damaging many people, especially children, in Brazil are dying out due to a lack of water and foods. Even though their people are suffering the Brazil government is still funding their project to develop Amazon. From this example, governments need to put an attention on restoring environment rather than planet exploration.
In conclusion, I would definitely disagree with the statement that government should funds their space exploration projects rather than put an effort to enhance human beings' lives beacause protecting lives of poor people is more impending problems. Furthermore, saving environment is imperative too. On the whole, government should pay attention to current problems not spend their valuable money on just other creatures out of the Earth. |