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TOPIC: ISSUE56 - "Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future."
WORDS: 674
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-8-3 17:40:07
In this era of rapid social and technological change leading to increasingly life complexity and psychological displacement, people become more concerning the problem about the sustainable development. But meanwhile there are still many persons who assert that the governments should focus more on solving immediate problems of today rather than solving the anticipated problems in the future. Personally in my point of view, immediate problem is rightly the problem of existence, while the anticipated problem is the problem of development. I partially agree with the speaker and there should a balance by which the government should maintain in order to coordinate its administrations.
Admittedly, immediate problems are very important which the government should place them at the first. Immediate problems such as earthquake, tsunami as well as the terrorist attacks, all of these could cause big disordered and even threat people's lives. For example, on 2008 May 12th, WenChuan of Sichuan province, China, there is a terrible earthquake happened, rate 8.0. Immediately, Chinese government organized thousands of soldiers and volunteers entered the catastrophic area for rescue. During the first aid as long as several weeks, the disaster relief teams have alleviated numerous numbers of injured people and tried their best to diminish the consequence of this catastrophe. Obviously, this is very important of the government, and is the obligation, to solve the immediate problems well. To a large extent, quick actions can also help to avoid further adverse influence and the social disorder from disasters.
Otherwise, if the government failed to solve the immediate problem well or just postpone it, then the result would be quite severe! Immediate problems are associated with peoples' benefits or even the existence. Definitely, it is the government's responsibility to maintain a stable and harmony society. In order to make this idea clearly, let's take a look at the following representative instance. In Africa, starvation is a big problem in many countries for years. Numerous numbers of people are unable to have food regularly, including many kids and elders. Every year, the dead rate in Africa caused by starvation is not successfully reduced by the government. Undoubtedly, the governments in Africa are responsible to this terrible immediate problem because, as they failed to solve the shortage of food year by year, so many people are dead. Therefore, it is very clear that, the result will be quite serious if the government doesn’t solve the immediate problems successfully. Apart from that, the results probably would become much worse if the government failed to handle it at once.
However, besides the immediate problems at hand, the governments are also required to consider the anticipated problems of their counties. In this era of peace, technologies are thrived to develop, as the lives of human beings become much better, the government should take the anticipated problems into account. Years ago, under the push of the giant profit of economy development, people, as well as the government, looking for any methods to raise money and develop their economy as fast as they possibly could. Meanwhile, they regardless many anticipated problems, such as the problem of environment and the construction of social awareness. However, along the development of our society, the ideology and insight of people have changed. As we often heard in this time, "sustainable development" is a representative idea that the government has concerned the anticipated problems of future much more!
To sum up, this controversy describes the dilemma faced by many people in this era that, whether the government should solve the immediate problems or the anticipated problems in the future. However, according to the discussion above, although the dilemma still exists, it is not very hard for us to draw the conclusion that: immediate problems is the problem about existence, which require the government to solve immediately, while the anticipated problem is concerning the development for the future, which also need the government to pay attention. Only when the government finds a balance in solving the incidents between the immediate problems and anticipated problems can sustain a harmony and stable society. |
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