The Environment Is More Important than Economic Development

With the development of economy and the improvement of living standard of people, environmental protection has become a hot topic which causes many people’s attention. Because people realize that in order to develop the economy and improve the quality of their life, they have ignored the environmental protection. And now the

environment is serious damaged which threatens the people’s life and the development of the economy. So it is important to develop the economy, but it is more important to protect the environment.

Environment is the home we are living in and it is the only place we are living in. Although the scientists are trying to find another planet for our human being to live in, but it is an unsolved problem and it will need a long time. Maybe it will need thousands of years or even longer. So we should protect the environment from now on. If we do not take action right now, it will be too late to protect the environment from being worse. As the data shows that as of 2003, land desertification in China is 2.674 million square kilometers, accounting for 27.9% of the total land area, covering 18 provinces of the 471 counties. And it continues to expand at an alarming rate. Earthquake, drought and flood also happen frequently. These disasters are mainly caused by the environmental destroy.

In the rural areas, people deforest to sell in order to be rich. And some of them just want to cut the trees to cook. As a saying goes, “Where there is life, there is hope.” We know that cutting the trees will lead to water and soil erosion and the happening of the natural disasters. In that case, our economy will lose. In the big cities, the environmental problems are more serious. Many factories discharge of waste gas into the air and put out rubbish into the rivers. All kinds of transportations also exhaust polluted gas and make noise. All of these cause the water pollution, air pollution and noise pollution which also threaten the health of people. So protecting the environment is just around the corner.

A good environment is the important premise of the economic development. So while we are developing the economy, we need to put the environment in the first place.