It's difficult to reach a definitive answer. But in my opinion, economic
growth should be placed in the first priority. There are two reasons why
I think so.
First, Corporations try to play a role to maintain the environment.
Let's take semiconductor chip design for example. A lot of engineers make
strong effort to reduce power consumption leading to durable. Literally,
night and day. Low power consumption is highly evaluated at not
international conference but also marketwise.
This is a good evidence to show how important environmental sustainability
is.
Second, this is not only our generation's problem but also future
generation's problem. For example, Kyoto protocol has been shed light on.
It covers more than 160 countries globally. This is a good agreement for future
generation. The U.S is criticized not to ratify the protocol by the
reason that it would result in serious harm to the economy of the United
States.
But over 200 cities in the U.S ratify on their own. This indicates that
the state-level program
will apply pressure on the federal government.
In conclusion, environmental sustainability should be placed at high
priority.
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We human are tend to persuit our merit and almost always put our next generations' merit on the back burner.
Let me give you an example of Tokyo bay.
Tokyo bay was heavily exploited during the economic boom in 60's. Fishrmen, who was in the last line of diffence had been fighting to protect the environment which was their workplace. Their struggle was so vigorous, but despite of their effort, the development of Tokyo bay had went on and on, putting a lot of artificial islands inside the bay shore. So many factories and plants were put along the shore, pouring toxic into the bay, killing so many fish, generating malformalities of their body.
In the end, fishermen came term with compensation from the goverment, relinquishing their right for fishery.
How about now? After achieving the summit of industrial development, Japan's industries are hollowing out, shifting its production to Asian countries.
What we have around Tokyo bay is would-be reminent of past, huge garbage.
In Tokyo, I can say luckly we did not have so severe pollution relatively speaking, but how about other places? How about minamata area, which is unfamely very famous for its horrible minamata disease which was caused by intake of methylmercury? How about itaiitai disease? The factory owners I believe could avoid the incidence but they never put first priority to the resident. I heard they after hearing of occurrence of the peculiar disease even switched the direction of flow of the river to check if the disease would occur even in another are, which sounds like a horrible human experiment. What I would like to say is that we human beings are evil. Even if we knew the right path, it would be very difficult to choose one under strong surge for money.
Looking back history, we certaily had very difficult time in terms with economy. In such time we tended to have justified almost whatever, even they would give damage to others. And almost always somebody suffered. It looks like a balance game. Should almost of thrive with someone's sacrifice? Or should we all live modest live without giving any harm to others?
I am a peace loving person and not someone who put one's prior to the others, and can stand modest life, so in my opinion, we should put priority on environmental sustainability. But my desposition and that of many of people in this world seem to be different, making it difficult to bring my preference into this world.
Hello, take san. Thank you for respondign to my post. I'd appreciate it. I enjoyed your unique perspective. Could you keep posting, please?
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