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Topic 56
May, 16th, 11: 36- 12: 30
54minutes(531words)
It is understandable that decision-makers may confront a dilemma at times about allocating money to solve urgent, immediate social problems or to carry on some researches which may benefit the following generations in a long term. Whatever decisions they finally make, in my opinion, however, these two aspects do not necessarily conflict with other. Instead, they may be compatible and sometimes facilitate each other.
It is absolutely reasonable to consider and take actions to deal with something already existing and emergent, for instance, typically, pollution and energy crisis. These two problems have affected and even threatened our living conditions of human beings. Pollution, on the one hand, has worsened our living environment and cause many related diseases. When breathing in polluted air, we are less likely to sustain our respiratory function. On the occasion of drinking polluted and even toxic water, human being easily get sick and even die. Without immediate and efficient solution to these severe facing matters, we, human beings have a risk of surviving any longer. Energy crises, on the other hand, have warned us that some of nature resources that have been used will never come back, while they are essential to run this industrialized world. It is advocated that each of the social members should have a strong sense of responsibility to protect the left resources, to recycle as much as possible, to consume them more reasonably and more scientifically, and more significantly, to seek for some alternative, new and regenerated energy to take the place of those traditional ones in crisis. Consequently, we need funds to work on researches about environmentally-friendly materials and usage and meanwhile explore sustainable energies, both of which we have already started but never know when to cease. This uncertainty proves, to some extent, that some decisions already made are for the sake of both of our existing and future generations.
Moreover, it is inhuman for us to enjoy every improvement and innovations left by our ancestors but leave nothing for our next generations. It is also humiliating for us to teach our kids to seize the day and prepare for the future while we only seize the day for us and don’t plan and prepare for their future. Perhaps, some people may remark that it is waste of money to do long-term research with infinite uncertainties about the result. Nevertheless, it is these uncertainties that enlighten us, inspire us, give us hope, fulfill our sense of duty, and most of all, define us as human beings. It is not to say, we have no possibility of failure; learning from failures can draw us back from a wrong direction and guide us a new potential way. Furthermore, every achievement brought about from the long-term research is an unexpected gift for our living generations and we already have enjoyed them to handle some emergent problems such as solar energy.
In summary, it is meaningless to argue which one is more important when locating money for solutions to nowadays existing problems or for long-term research. Alternatively, we need to shift our focus from the above-mentioned argument to striking and keeping a balance between these two, and the latter deserves more consideration and attempts.
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