issue83 [SJTU-ETB6 10G] 第7次作业

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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: 633          TIME: 01:00:00          DATE: 2007-8-8 0:04:45

观点：同意上面观点，政府应该保护荒地，尽管它不能为社会的繁荣做贡献，但是荒地对人类来说远比那些物质的东西重要。
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1.保护荒地有一些实际的研究价值。
2. 保存荒地也是保护我们自己――长远的价值。
3. 尽管这些地区有可能像题中所述人迹罕至，也要保护，因为也极易被破坏，譬如中国的可可西里的藏羚羊。
4. Admittedly, 保护荒地需要很大的资金投入。但是，应该设法寻求一种平衡来保护荒地，如美国的黄石公园是一个很好的例子。

Should government preserve wilderness areas in their natural state even if these areas are extremely remote? The statement asserts so and I fundamentally agree with it. Notwithstanding that the preservation of these areas many not prosper the society in material property, the significance that it means to human is far more profound.

To begin with, these areas can sometimes be of great importance for scientific research. No body can tell exactly what has been stored in these areas, and thus the scientific exploration may always find a great subsequence. In term of biology, so many unknown or rare species may inhabit in these areas. For that matter, it is always significant for the biologist to do their research on this which sometimes provides a new relation among creatures. Moreover, something dating back to an olden time can promote the research of an archeologist who may entangle into a not-easily-settled question--a question that can be so well figured out via the help this something found in these areas. Not only these, other scientific research such as geography, geology, ecology and the like sometimes may all benefit from these wilderness areas.

Furthermore, Not only benefits mentioned above can be obtained but also as a whole we can gain other benefits for ordinary living of people if we preserve these areas. These areas always play the role of preserving amount of biological species--always called the biodiversity. As we all know that, it is just the biodiversity that constitutes the whole ecosystem which is vital to all forms of life. If one of these factors--not only animals but also plants--was destroyed or aberrant, the whole system will function unnormally. The tropical forest, for example, regulates the amount of carbon dioxide with the process of photosynthesis. It is now accepted that the global warming is an undoubted fact which results most likely from the action of deforesting--this action renders the decreasing of amount of forests which lead to an increasing in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, then the temperature goes higher. Our preservation of these areas can so prevent such results from happening; in this sense, we are creating a more well-living condition for ourselves.

Even if these areas are often extremely remote--thus accessible to only a few people, we should preserve and protect them. The more remote these areas are, the more likely they become vulnerable. Because there is always someone who want to benefit from these places for personal interests, protecting these places then become an obligatory action. Such as the case in China, chirus--usually known as Tibetan Antelope--are suffering from slaughtering committed by poachers in Hoh Xil--an area in Tibetan Plateau, notwithstanding they have already been listed in the Class I Protected Species. Even though Hoh Xil is such a remote area that nearly no one would go there, the situation cannot stop those poachers. Then what about other remora areas? So it is almost obligatory for the government to preserve those areas.

Admittedly, the action of preserving those areas must be a constable project, especially when it comes to such situation as the government has not enough revenue to spend on preservation. However, there is no absolutely limitation saying that preservation means no touching. We can take another way of preservation, such as Natural Park, and Yellowstone National Park is such a good example for resolving the issue. The preservation of all species is undergoing well, and the tourism runs almost the same.

In conclusion, with a delicate consideration above, the significance of preserving those wilderness areas lie not only in the researching value and maintaining the ecosystem but also in many other respects. Also, if utilizing well, we can reach a win-win situation--both preserving those areas and benefiting from them.

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