Friday, October 17, 2008

SSP 109 Advanced ESL Discussion Question

TASK: Provide your answer to the question below including supporting details for your opinion. You may include specific examples from your home country. In addition, you must respond to at least one comment made by one of your classmates.

What do you think is more important economic development, protecting the environment, or a combination of the two?

11 comments:

elumar said...

Combination of two topics is the better option because sometimes we do not have way to scape or preserve just one of the topic. Such as when people have to occupate same new space, in my opinion, they should to do it, but preserving the environment.

reshma said...

According to me now its more important for us to protect our environment because if we don’t protect it first there wont be anything or any body left to work on our economics, like it is been suspected that due the global warming the sea level is rising as the ice in the extreme north and south has started melting. These will soon lead to the condition where many of our great cities like Mumbai, New York and some other, which are economically very important. There will be the time soon when these cities will get wipe off from the face of our earth.
This problem of global warming has arrived just because we concentrated more on increasing our economics then our environment and now we are at the stage where we are going to lose some of our important economic centers and also facing problem with the changing weather on all around the earth, which again will affect our economy.
So I thing it’s important for us to first look for solving the problems of our environment and then think of economic development

mason said...

What do you think is more important economic development, protecting the environment, or a combination of the two?

I believe that people should focus on both economic development and protecting the environment.
First of all, there are many devastating events in the world because of burning fossil fuels. We should develop eco-friendly alternative energy to protect the environment.
Also, high technology made our life convenient. Nowdays, major number of people use the Internet on a daily basis. The more we develop advanced technology, the more we live convenient.
For these reasons, I think that conbination of the two is most important.

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ufuk guven said...

Ufuk Guven


This question like is money more important than health or health more important money...
health links money.if someone does not have enough money, he or she can not protect his or her health.The other way someone who has much money,but his or her health situation is not good he or she can not use money.People can not enjoy anything.

Each country need economic development.Therefore, they have to build factory,company,building and also they have to produce something that might damagely things for environment.However, counries can protect environment and they can do it more beatiful by their economies.

Sometimes, countries need nice place to improve their economies such as Caribbean, Turkey and Cuba...

I mean aconomi and clean environment link with each other as being money and health...

açb said...

In my opinion protecting the environment is more important then economic development.Because if we won't have some good envirenmant areas ,our money won't recover the environment back.Consequently,the world will become a difficult place to live
ahmet

mason said...

I agree with the ufuk's idea.
Indeed, the country which have high technology emits less pollution. Nowdays, developing countries are blamed for reckless emision. But develped countries are trying to develop eco-friendly and envrionment friendly energy sources. So, development of economy is necessary.
To. ufuk

reshma said...
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reshma said...

I agree with the Ahmet, because as i discussed earlier if we don't take care of our environment now, it will be very difficult for us to recover from the environmental problems like global warming, ozone layer deletions and disappearance of many living species of plants and animals, as changing environmental conditions are causing my living being to get endangered and get vanished from our earth.
Reshma

Unknown said...

SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

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