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happyman2000UID：136936

Issue 3. "It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations."

Syllabus:
We need a balance between the two problems.
1, many immediate social problems have developed to such an extent that the interests of the human race as a whole would be severely endangered.
2, sometimes the way of how we deal with these immediate social problems is highly related to the long-run benefits of future generations.
3, overemphasizing immediate social problems would contrarily result in the damage of the whole and long-term benefits of humanity.
4, if we neglect the precautious and provident research on the long-term problems, we will inevitably lose the direction and guidance in tackling the immediate, existing problems.

Nowadays, the world is continually and severely disarranged not only by some immediate, existing social problems such as unemployment, terrorism, and spread of mass destructive weapons, but also by many long-term questions influencing the sustained development of the human race, which include environmental contamination, resources shortage, and so on. Obviously, the former are mainly associated with the benefits of the current people while the latter are primarily left to that of the future. Dilemma comes about that how we should properly allocate our limit and ever-decreasing social and natural resources for these two kinds of problems. Different people have different ideas. As far as I am concerned, I think that the whole interests of the human beings including both the current and the future call for a deliberately balance between them.
In the current world, many immediate social problems have developed to such an extent that the interests of the human race as a whole would be severely endangered if we failed to undertake strong and effective measures. For instance, the terrorism has approved to be the prime menace to the mankind after the 9.11 event occurred in the U.S. in 2001. If governments through the world didn’t take strong and consolidated measures, the whole life of human would have been cruelly destroyed by terrorists. Besides the terrorism, many other immediate emergences might also oblige us to allocate many resources for them if we hope to live safely and comfortably. Therefore, under many circumstances, putting resources into resolving immediate problems is just something that we must do, other than something whether we should do.  
In addition, sometimes the way of how we deal with these immediate social problems is highly related to the long-run research favoring our future generations. For example, out of the economic motives, many corporations and scientific institutions now are engaged in immediate innovations on resource-saving automobiles. Undoubtedly, these activities will do a good to the long-term research about air pollution and resources shortage that influence sustained development of humanity.
However, despite the great necessity and importance of resolving immediate problems, overemphasizing them would contrarily result in the damage of the whole and long-term benefits of humanity. There is an illustrating example occurred in China recently. Since the 1978, China has been constantly emphasizing the paramount importance of economic construction and regarding any other things including the sanitation as auxiliary. Under the direction of this policy, China has put almost all her resources into economic construction, with the result that economic growth attained the rate of nearly 10% every year, but the development of public sanitation declined rapidly. More seriously, nobody suspected the rationality of this policy in China until the spring of 2003, when a new fatal epidemic, SARS, first burst out in Gudong province and soon spread into the H.K., Beijing and later all over the world. Suffering from the backward sanitary system characteristic of sluggish reactions and shortage of hospitals, doctors, nurses and other facilities, China quickly bogged down into unutterably disarrangement and many people lost their lives. This SARS event vividly illustrates what will happen to both the future and the current if we neglect the long-term social problems and fail to take provident measures.  
Moreover, without the long-term research on the far-reaching social problems, we will inevitably lose the direction and guidance in tackling the immediate, existing problems. As is well known, applied science aiming at immediate problems is based on the long-term research, which is primarily concerned with future important social and scientific problems. So, Any successful breakthrough of long-term research will provide us with powerful weapons in dealing with immediate problems.
Without attaching enough importance to the immediate, existing social problems, our lives would be quickly endangered by all sorts of emergences. Without enough concerns about the basic research in respect of the long-term problems, the ability of resolving immediate problems would also be weakened, and eventually the whole benefits of society and future generations would be damaged.     (659 words)

woolfUID：136592

a boring opening

tomatoeggsUID：82073

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alan_903UID：110685

我看过之后有点糊涂

写的还是不错的，但是总觉得结构上少点什么穿针引线的冬冬

happyman2000UID：136936

我的这篇文章在开篇和结构上的确有较大缺陷

happyman2000UID：136936

Issue 3. "It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations."

Syllabus:
We need a balance between the two problems.
1, the long-term research provides guidance and weapons for dealing with immediate problems.
2 overemphasizing immediate social problems would result in the damage of not only the future generations but also the current people
3, paying attention to immediate problems is necessary and important.

Just as a famous entrepreneur has said, the key for success is to plan for next day, our society as a whole must also carefully allocate enough social and natural resources into the long-term research that might help future generations while it is absorbed in all kinds of immediate, existing social problems.
First of all, the long-term research on some far-reaching scientific and social problems, as is well known in science, even if only a small part of which could come up to success, will provide humanity with illuminable guidance and powerful weapons in tackling the immediate, existing problems. Without the great breakthrough of scientists’ long-term researches on medicines, for instance, how could our mankind successfully annihilate numerous fatal epidemics such as leprosy, cholera, and smallpox and gradually attain the level of over 60 years in life expectancy?  Without Newton’s great accomplishments in mechanics, could humanity invent so many practical instruments and apparatuses that had brought us more favorable and more convenient lives?
Moreover, on contrary to what most people would expect, not only the future generations but also the current people will also undergo a great loss under many circumstances if we overemphasize the immediate social problems and fail to make provident research and take precautious measures over the long-term social problems. There is an illustrating example occurred in China recently. Since the 1978, China has been constantly emphasizing the paramount importance of economic construction and simply regarding any other long-term things including the sanitation as auxiliary. Under the direction of this policy, China has put almost all her resources into economic construction, with the result that economic growth attained the rate of nearly 10% every year, but the development of public sanitation declined rapidly. More seriously, nobody perceived the dangers of this policy in China until the spring of 2003, when a new fatal epidemic, SARS, first burst out in Gudong province and soon spread into the H.K., Beijing and later all over the world. Suffering from the backward sanitary system characteristic of sluggish reactions and shortage of hospitals, doctors, nurses and other facilities, China quickly bogged down into unutterably disarrangement and many people lost their lives. This SARS event vividly illustrates what will happen to both the future and the current if we neglect the long-term social problems and fail to take provident measures.
Of course, when we highlight the importance of provident research about basic science and long run social problems, we must admit that our society should allocate a very large amount of resources into resolving the immediate, existing social problems. There are primarily two reasons for it: first, the immediate problems are always highly related to the long-term research. For example, out of the short-term economic motives, many automobiles manufacturers are devoted into the innovations on oil-saving products. Undoubtedly, these immediate innovations added together will gradually bring about the revolutionary breakthrough in dealing with long-term problems such as energy shortage and environment contaminations. Secondly, many immediate social problems have developed to such an extent that the interests of the human race would be severely endangered if we failed to undertake strong and effective measures. For instance, the terrorism has approved to be the prime menace to the mankind after the 9.11 event occurred in the U.S. in 2001. If governments through the world did not take powerful measures, terrorists would have destroyed the whole life of human. Therefore, sometimes putting resources into resolving immediate problems is not something whether we should do, but something that we must do if we hope to live safely and comfortably.  
In sum, despite the great necessity and importance of concerns with the immediate social problems, the long-term research about basic science and some far-reaching social problems should not also be neglected and the appropriate means is to keep a deliberate balance between them.