保護(hù)環(huán)境英語(yǔ)作文：Development and the Environment

It is undeniable that the worsening environment has become the biggest concern of the present-day world. Land resources are dwindling because of water loss and soil erosion. Waste gases poison the air we breathe. The rivers and lakes are polluted by waste dumped in them from factories. It is probably no exaggeration to say that deterioration of the quality of the environment threatens the existence of mankind itself.

Some people are of the opinion that the environmental problem is the price we have to pay for economic development. But I do not think that this argument is valid. After all, what is the point of economic growth if people's lives are adversely alfected by worsening environmental pollution ?

不可否認(rèn)環(huán)境惡化已成為當(dāng)今世界最大的問(wèn)題。土地資源在不斷減少,因?yàn)樗亮魇?。廢氣污染著我們呼吸的空氣。河流和湖泊被工廠的 倒出來(lái)的廢棄物所污染。這可以毫不夸張地說(shuō),環(huán)境質(zhì)量的惡化威脅著人類的生存。

有些人認(rèn)為環(huán)境問(wèn)題是我們因?yàn)榻?jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展而必須要付出的代價(jià)。但我不認(rèn)為這種觀點(diǎn)是有效的。畢竟,經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)的重點(diǎn)是什么?如果人們的生活環(huán)境被日益惡化、被嚴(yán)重污染了，那還有什么意義?