ISSUE83 [Victors小组]第九次作业 by H-Kevin

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83. "Government should preserve publicly owned wilderness areas in their natural state, even though these areas are often extremely remote and thus accessible to only a few people."

政府应该保留国家领土中公共拥有的荒凉地区，即使这些地区往往人迹罕至。


提纲：
1。不同意作者观点，表明态度
2。人口持续增长，需要开发地区以适应人类生存，减轻大城市的压力，比如中国
3。随着人口的激增，能源的需求也变得很大，需要在新的地方开拓资源，比如中国
4。但是，要保护环境，以免破坏生态系统，造成不可挽回的损失，比如印度尼罗河流域
5。有些地区是生态环境重地，有原始文明和稀有物种，不宜开发，比如热带雨林
6。并不是所有地方都需要保护的，在考虑到生态的基础上进行开放是有益于社会的

TIME: 52min    NUMBER: 672



The speaker asserts that the wilderness areas should be protected and kept their aboriginality even though extremely remote and accessible to only a few people. I agree that keeping the aboriginality of some wilderness areas might eventually serve to the local ecosystem. However, I strongly disagree that, taking account of the constant increased number of people and raised consumption of natural energy, our government should leave the wilderness without any develop.

As for the claim that we need more land for the increased population in our country, we already have sufficient empirical evidence that this is an emergence problem for some developing countries, like China and India. For nearly a half-century, our earth sustains more than 2 billion people than that we had before World War Two. More over, almost majority of these people were born in China and India. In fact, the China and India already do not have the capacity for these people live in their some big cities like Beijing and Shanghai. So, if we still do not develop new area in the west of china where are often extremely remote and accessible o only a few people for our people, we can image that the Beijing and Shanghai will be jam everyday and lost their competence in the development.

More over, the increased people would bring the tremendous consumption of natural energy based on such reasons that in transportation: increased number of mobiles and flights need more and more oil, in daily life: increased need of the gas and electricity for culinary use, and in work: energy the factory need keep rise dramatically. And every country should solve this demand by their selves. For example, almost 75% oil in China has been imported from the middle Asia and Russia since 1976. However, after the oil survey found the new big oil and gas stratum in the Xinjiang province, in northwest of China, and Jilin province, In the far north of China, the oil need of China government in foreign market has reduce to 45% of all the requirement. Even more significantly, to extant that China government do not develop that wilderness area in the north and northwest, once there are war happened in the oil transporting way--Middle Asia still in unstable political situation today, the lack of oil will interrupt and block the development of whole nation.

It is some what more attempting to accept assumes that some wilderness areas play a vital role in local ecosystem. If the government exploits this area without any substantial research, I would entirely agree that we would better do not touch any acre in this area. Take the Nile River Delta as an example, before the developing the upriver district where none lived, all the residents, especially the farmers can utilize the fertile soil brought by the Nile River. But, while a big dam were built there for preventing the flood, all the farmers can not use that fertile soil any more, and local ecosystem also be damaged because so many factory setup their workshop near the dam for the sufficient water source, furthermore there is no enough water can sweep away the pollutant what made by these factories.

Admittedly, some wilderness area consists of various species of animals and plants. Any ruin of this area can not be recovered like that any scientist can not produce and replicate the extinct animals. As the last and biggest rain forest, the rain forest in the south America is the best example where we should never exploit, even we know this area contains a great deal of minerals. The damage happened in this area will not only bring the catastrophe to the South American but also to the whole earth.

In sum, while the improper development in the wilderness area might induce the immensurable loss. However, blindly preserving every wilderness area without considering the increased requirement of the land and energy, lack of which the nation can not develop anymore will lost the capability in preserving these wilderness areas in long views.

[ 本帖最后由 H-Kevin 于 2007-6-13 21:59 编辑 ]