ISSUE56 =August Rush=小组第5次作业 by 尾羽

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56"Governments should focus more on solving the immediate problems of today rather than trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future." 56．
政府应该把更多的精力放到解决眼前实际的问题中，而不要放到未来可能会产生的问题中。

正：当前的问题确实需要着力解决，这是继续向前发展的前提。如果在没有解决当前问题的情况下，只考虑到未来，那么这种考虑问题的结果一般都是不切实际的。（1）没有学会走路，就没法学跑步（2）没解决温饱问题，就免谈更高层次的需求Maslow’ s Hierarchy of needs

反：但事实证明，把更多精力放在当前的问题，而轻视未来可能会产生的问题，这样会导致非常严重的后果。（Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-SARS, financial tsunami）

反：还有事实证明，有许多眼前需要解决的问题，就是因为当初没有考虑到未来可能发生的问题（environment problems全球变暖，臭氧空洞）

合：这两者可以共存，并不矛盾，我们要做的就是把握好平衡，做到可持续发展

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Should governments pay more attention to solving the immediate problems in nowadays rather than the anticipated ones in the future? To the author, the answer is absolutely yes. However, I agree insofar as that the governments do should concentrate on problems in the current society, while it is also worth considering whether the present-day action is benefit for developing constantly in the future.

To begin with, admittedly, I have to concede undoubtedly that we should do effort to solve the immediate problems in order to build a fundamental step as a premise for advancing in future. To witness solving problems to prepare for future, one need look no further than the learning procedure of our babies, that unless they had learned to walk they would not know how to run, and that they could not speak with a complete sentence until they had learned some single words. Furthermore, according to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the higher needs in this hierarchy only come into focus when the lower needs in the pyramid are met. That is to say, people would not focus on the chase for spiritual demand when the physical need has not been satisfied, so would governments.

However, it may lead to serious consequences if officials in governments take more attention to the problems currently and despise what would happen later. Here are two facts to confirm it. A horrible disease of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was generated and spread in Guangdong province of China in 2003. For their political careers, which are the ironically vital immediate problem to them, some governors choose to withhold the disease information from citizens. Afterwards, the situation was getting worse and worse. Due to the population flow and virus infections, thousands of persons got the disease in many other cities, including Beijing and Shanghai. Finally, it cost the nation a large number of resources to overcome the national epidemic disease. In the scope of worldwide, when talking about the responsibility of the recent global financial crisis, some people believe that if the American government foresees the depressing tendency in economy and do something to prevent increasing damage from the circumstance in the future.

Moreover, certain crisis have to be solved immediately in nowadays exactly due to governments were blind to the problems that may occur in the future. For instance, governments should pay attention to certain environment experts’ suggestion to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in several decades ago for preventing the world from the increasingly serious global warming. Similarly, the problem of the larger ozone hole above the two polar regions is also could be avoidable which relieves more harmful ultraviolet radiation onto the earth, if the governments had concentrated on considering the future.

In sum, the governments do should solve the immediate problems which are the premise to have achievements in the future, while the anticipated problems also should be focused. In my observation, furthermore, the government as a role of leader must seek the balance between immediate problems and anticipated ones for the sustainable development of human beings.

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