Issue83 Thrive小组第5次作业 有拍必回!谢谢!!

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TOPIC: ISSUE83 - "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."
WORDS: 630          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2008-2-25 16:55:12

Conflicts between prolonging human existence and solving cunrrent societal problems lie in government consistently. In order to keep biological diversity and natural balance, I agree with the speaker that government should preserve wilderness areas for permitting a confortable survival for our offspring in the prospective future. However, if the nation is severely short of sel-sufficient abilities, such as in economical or political aspects, the government should set higher priority to urgent issues at hand.

To begin with, preservation of wilder areas conducted by government assuers a most available and effective way to provide descendents access to a continuable nature system. As a result of human industrialization, not only social problems in technical aspects but also severe environmental destruction should been taken into account. Gradually appearing phenomena, such as ozone holes, global warming trends, species distinction and so forth, reveals threats of disastrous concequences tomorrow. At the same time, just because of their remote and thus accessible to only a few people, relative integrity in wilder areas can in certain amounts help to counteract the effects of environmental destruction. First,  rather than ordinary deforestation in most places, wilder areas always still consist of original forests or grass plaina, which help to diminish environment destruction by ways of getting rid of poisonous gases and improving airy quality. For all we know, green plants with photosynthesis mechanism can convert CO2, the main resason for green house effect, into oxgen thus diminish harmful effects. Moreover, wilder areas are able to serve as the endangered speices' final habitats, since these areas are enough far away to avoid over-hunting and some fatal environmental changes. Therefore, in the sense that wilder areas maintain our endangered environment, government, which have the unique abilities ranther than anyone else, should take measures to preserve them.

However, government takes respossibilties not primarily for the moral justice but for the well-bing of populace and strength of the nation as a whole. Whenver protecting wilder areas requires too much support from economical or personnel respect, the priority needs confirmation. Resources of any nation is limited in certain degree, and deficit occurs  frequently even if places emphasis on such relatively marginal issues. This does not entail eschewing from accountabilities for destiny of prospective citizens or human beings altogether. It meas concern for being responsible of its living citizens to guarantee the advent of prospective society. Can a nation which suffered and is suffering from mass starvation, unemployment and destructive warfare but focus on symbiosis relationship with other speices exist long? In this sense, government should be somewhat selfish rather than completely generous at the risk of self-sacrifice.

Admittedly, things always not go extreme that wilder areas must be preserve in their natural state completely. We should consider the whole issue pragmaticly and make good use of these wilder areas to certain extent, insofar their important functions are not influenced. For example, moderate exploitation of some wilder areas can change them into national parks, which can serve as places of interest, and both collect money for better preservation and draw publical attention of wiler aeras. The most convincing example is Yellow Stone national parks in United States. Under proper management, most wilder areas, inluding plants and animals habitats, in the park, remain in their natural state, while great financial revenues brought from it turn into more economic support for better preservation.

In sum, we have the unique ability and moral responsibility to preserve wilderness areas for a common continuable environment for both ourselves and descendents. Nevertheless, sometimes government has to lay down such idea in order to avoid jerpadize in domestic crisis. In addition, once needed, to meet the needs for survival of its citizens, the government ought to make alternatives of exploiting rather than preservation insofar important functions in these areas are not influenced.