发展经济还是保护环境?英语作文

　　Developing Economy or Protecting Environment?

　　Some people hold that we should put developing the cconomy in the first place.Only by further balancing and developing our economy can we get rid of poverty and gain the overall development of the coun-try.Otherwise,many people,espccially in rural areas,may live in pov-erty and their children may drop out of school because they could not af-ford compulsory education.

　　On the other hand,many people insist that environmental protec-tion should be a top priority.They hold that it is the rapid and unrestrict-ed development of economy that leads to the present situation in which most parts of the world are polluted.If the problem is left unsolved,someday we may not survive on this planet,let alone develop our econ-omy.

　　In my opinion,both economy and environmental protection are our urgent tasks at hand.Without economic development,we would remain backward.And without environmental protection,we would lose our homes.It seems that the best solution is to develop environ-mental-protection-oriented enterprises so as to "kill two birds with one stone".

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　　发展经济还是保护环境?

　　有些人认为我们应该首先发展经济。只有进一步协调经济的.发展，我们才能消除贫困，实现总体发展的目标。否则许多人，尤其是农村人，可能会生活在贫困之中，小孩因支付不起费用而辍学。

　　相反地，也有人主张优先保护环境。他们的观点是，迅猛而且无限制的发展导致了现在世界上多数地方的污染问题。如果不解决问题，有朝一日我们将失去生存的空间，还谈什么发展经济。

　　我认为发展经济和保护环境都是我们的当务之急。不发展经济，我们会落后;不保护环境，我们会丧失家园。 似乎最好的策略是建设保护环境为导向的企业，发展与保护并举。