On which side gorvenments should focus more between preserving the natural environment and economic development? Although several developed countries so far achieved their prosperity by considering economic growth more importantly than keeping our environment clean, I think it's time we should turn to the other side rather than keeping the economic growth sacrificing our environment for the following reasons.
First of all, without positive consideration on keeping environment clean, it is difficult to achieve the economic growth as well. Differently as before, customers at the present does not solely depend on the price of products. They consider its affect to the environment. For example, by survey results that was performed in Japan, customers is, on average, willing to buy up to 10 percents more expensive products if it helps environment clean. This means that companies or gorverment that produces goods that are harmful to our environment will experience decrease in sales. Moreover, if a goverment does not focus preserving environment, the international society will blame the country and it will be followed by the global consumer resistance.
The second reason for the governments should more focus on the environment than economic growth is that in fact the preservation is economically beneficial much. In this ages, what is leading the silicon velley is not the IT ventures which had led the velley for more than 30 years, but It is now the green companies, developing alternative energies. The reason that we can see many birth of these new green ventures is that it will make much money. For example, there are already a huge market of the hybrid cars.
In sum, keeping environment is getting important more and more. It is not just only a serving activity. It is now an economic activities which has even one of the largest market in the future. Thus, we couldn't think the economic development that does not consider the environmental preservation since it cannot survive in the future. |