This paper attempts to examine all the arguments that have been conducted regarding environmental policy. It reflects on the question whether pollution and cleanliness could co-exist and what policy is best suited to promote a healthier and cleaner environment. Lastly, the main points of the debate are summed to emphasize on the learning that has taken place.
Dear Larry,
POLLUTION AND CLEANLINESS CANNOT CO-EXIST
Larry, after having series of discussions and countless debates with you regarding what leads us towards a healthier and a happier society, I could only find the answer within us; each and every individual is the answer to the survival that would follow with a healthy environment. It may be possible to have a polluted environment as well as healthier one as long as the polluted environment does not take over the healthy completely as to deprive the world wholly from cleanliness in every way. The rapidity with which we are cutting trees for our manufacturing purposes, the increase in vehicles, the pace with which rural areas are seemingly nowhere to be found these days, we are simply inviting trouble in our lives, as we are actually pushing away the nature from us.
Have you ever calculated how if we keep killing (I would call this murder because even if the effect takes over indirectly, it does kill people) 4 billion trees each year, without planting any tree in its place, in less than 20 years, we would be panting for oxygen just like after a heavy run and the worst part is that we would only be taking in carbon monoxide by then. The vehicle increase and urbanization has allowed the worst of the gases to come out in the open.
Drinking water from properly filtered tanks would not show me any benefits at the moment. However, in the long run, the clean water that has been squenching my thirst for years would finally take effect when I would stay active. You might be given the benefit of doubt about your habit as a child. Generally, if we get ourselves used to a certain habit as kids, we find ourselves immune to it. Nevertheless, all effects take worse forms during the last phase of life so keep hoping that the creek water keeps you healthy or start drinking clean water to wash away all toxins that may be piling up all these years.
If pollution does no harm, then why does every child that is born today, is infected with jaundice? If a cleaner environment makes not much difference like the polluted one, then why are more people getting prone to asthma due to the vehicle emission? During the years 1989-2000, higher infant mortality rates were predicted when gynecologists understood the relation between air pollution and the infant development. In a study that was conducted in America, it was found in the year 2000 that the major cause of child asthma is exposure to bad air.
POLICY ON ENVIRONMENTAL WELFARE
If I were to design a policy on public safety and healthy environment, my goals would have been simple. I would put a full stop on tree cutting. Is health more important than the luxurious mahogany furniture to serve our comforts? If we are not living any longer, even the finely-made timber bed would not give us any comfort. My policy would put a ban on trees. If we are to cut trees, then we must ‘grow others too’. The rapidity of decline among trees is due to no replacement. We are not replacing the current trees with others. If lives are to be saved, then trees are to be grown. They are not merely shades, they are live saviors. The UV rays that have increased skin cancers are simply reaching us because of the trees that have been removed.
CONCLUSION
I would continue to assert the benefits of a healthier environment. It was a great experience to debate about the importance and to be familiarized with your ideas Larry. I came to discover my own points and even got a chance to reflect on my ideas deeply. To sum up the main points of our argument, we stressed on how environmental damage is disastrous, the need for a cleaner society, we also saw how the polluted world and a clean one cannot co-exist in any way and then we debated our policies on the environment.
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