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发表于 2006-7-28 22:54:45
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Issue 226
"People are mistaken when they assume that the problems they confront are more complex and challenging than the problems faced by their predecessors. This illusion is eventually dispelled with increased knowledge and experience."
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The speaker claims that the illusion of people to assume the problems they confront more complex and challenging than what their predecessors faced is ultimately dispelled with increased knowledge and experience. I concede that some universal and timeless problems in any period of history are equally complex and challenging in essence, others unique to today’ world may be tougher than those our predecessors confronted; in addition, people should place balanced emphasis on the both.
Admittedly, the universal and timeless problems all through the entire history more or less share something in common. One needs look no further than the all-through-history social problems, such as gender inequality, racial and ethnic inequality, and poverty, which are suffered by people in any history period. Consider, to the essential attributes, that all these problems have to do with the people’s basic instinct and desire for power and fortune. Although different society has its own culture background and thought trends, history reflection shows that all above problems did not disappear and seemed equally complex and challenging for the contemporary people to confront. However, we should not neglect the more and more complex and challenging problems, which we human-beings nowadays are confronting, go as follows:
On the one hand, we should pay more consideration on our nature recourses, which become more and more inadequate and some species in my perspective will someday fade away from our memory. The immoderate cleat-cutting of the forests, the large-scale hunting of animals, and the excess destroy of the vegetation, etc. The accumulated human-beings’ innocent or conscious behaviors attribute to make the disorder of the recycle of nature severe problem, which turn out to be previously unrivaled in human society. Accordingly , it is necessary for our government to establish some political regulation and for our legislation to constitute effective laws to regulate society’s human-beings’ behaviors so as to make sure the inadequate bounds for the recycling of the nature recourses.
On the other hand, take the environmental problems for example. After the grow-up of the industry during the world war two, it does make great contribution to the development of the world’s economy, politics and military, however, it at the same time exerts huge press on the environment. The global warming, the depletion of the atmospheric ozone, the severe quality of water and so forth are all serving as the reflection of the environmental problems unrivaled in previous history and the caution for present humans to pay attention to do some protecting work. With the high-rate developing of technology, there is no excuse for people to make much pollution for larger amount of production with the lower expense, that is to say, use the advantaged technology and equipment to reduce the detrimental pollution during the proceeding of the industry producing.
To sum up, with the development of technology and science, more and more touch problems are coming into being, turning out to be more complex and challenging than the ones our predecessors faced. Yet there are also myriad of unchanging ones leaving to be dealt with. In addition, in my view, we should make equal efforts to deal with the both |
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