环境和经济英语作文(共3页)

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Governments should focus its budgets more on environmental protection than oneconomic development.Environmental protection and economic development areboth vital to a nation. But when it comes to the issue whether environmentprotecti

2、on should receive more financial support from the government thaneconomic development, my answer is positive.First, environmental protection needs more money thaneconomic development. The reasons are twofold. For one thing, governments haveto raise huge amount of money to purchase tree seeds or sapl

3、ings and hire morepeople toafforestate the land. Besides, maintaining a big area of forest isquite costly. For another thing, governments are responsible to spend muchmoney on encouraging the inventions of renewable energy, which may completelyreplace the fossil fuels and contribute greatly to the e

4、nvironmental protection.More inventions mean that the government has to invest more on scientificresearch, such as investing more on the university laboratories and paying thescientists. Those are commonly huge costs for a government. In contrast,economic development does not need such large amount

5、of money. What thegovernment should do is to continuously carry out policies that can really helpboost the whole economy and supervise and guide every individual economicparticipant. These will be some tasks that require less money.Second, it is the government that has to pay moremoney to protect ou

6、r environment, because government acquisition of goods andservices intended to create future benefits. Environment protection exertslong-term influences upon human beings and economic development. For example,protecting forests means we can have better air condition and more lumbersupply in the futu

7、re; protecting lakes and oceans means we can have cleanerwater and more seafood. Both lumbers and water are crucial to the modernindustry. However, it is barely possible for an individual investor to donateenough his income or savings to protect natural environment and consider thelong-term merits i

8、nstead of their own short-term payback.Admittedly, economic development does need money. Itis because investment has been widely considered as a main stimulation ofregional economy. That happens repeatedly in the emerging market economy. Oncean investment reaches a small open economy, the country may quickly thrive.However, those funding should mainly come from individual investors or bigcompanies. Governments are not supposed to fill this role. As