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: 464 TIME: 0:45:00 DATE: 2006-12-19
With the fast scientific and technology development, people nowadays are realizing that the world is more complicated than we thought in the past. As a result, I agree the notion that government should make effort to protect remote wilderness areas in their natural state, even though apparently they are beyond most people's access.
Though we can explore the universe and the bottom of ocean, there are still many places that are not approachable to ordinary people and ostensibly that we do not need to care about them. For instance, there are some areas in Tibet, China, where are not suitable for human beings to resident. It seems that the government should not spend any money and energy to preserve them.
However, as the complexity of nature, no one can accurately foresee what would happen if we do not preserve them in their natural states. Since once the ecology balance is broken, no one can predict the results and we would not know how much we should do to compensate that. Our planet is such a mysterious place and everything is interacting with each other. According to the scientific "Butterfly Effects", a tiny change in the remote place may cause a disaster in our surroundings. The scientist depicted it in a vivid way that if a butterfly flaps its wings in South America, it may arouse a tornado in Texas. Thus, if we do not preserve the remote wildness in their natural states, we are at great risks. For instance, the vast rain forest in Amazon, if the government let few people cut down trees in large amount and destroy the forest and does not take any action to stop them, it may bring a catastrophe to the whole world.
Besides, as these wildernesses are publicly owned and they are the territory of country, it is the governments' responsibility to preserve them for the integrity of their sovereignty and the cultural and ecological value. In fact, some extremely remote wildernesses are use to be the most prosperous cities in the past. These places are valuable research places for historical research. For instance, the vanishing city Loulan in Xinjiang is used to be the most important location on the "silk road". Though it has become desert now, some historicists are still researching there and try to find this vanishing city. Besides, some precious kinds of animal and plant are only living in the extremely remote wilderness and there are some people would go there to hunter them for money. Some of them may be at the edge of distinction and thus the government should implement some laws and punishments to preserve this precious species.
In sum, I strongly agree with the author's notion that government should preserve publicity owned wilderness areas in their natural state for the ecological balance and the precious cultural, historical and biological value.