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问题     The conflict between economic development and environmental protection is constantly under public debate. Should developing countries prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction when the two are in conflict? The following are opinions from different sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the different opinions;
    2. give your comment.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Seneca
    Environmental protection impacts our population’s long-term future. If nations do not give priority to environmental protection, it could have terrible impacts on the world’s population in the decades to come. We would no longer have the necessary resources to be able to support the human race, and the Earth would become an even more hazardous place to live due to global warming, stronger storms, increased pollution and toxins in the atmosphere and the like.
Masterbutor
    Put yourself in their shoes. These people are poor, starving, and we impose these restrictions on them. As we have more wealth we can bare more of the burden. But it really wouldn’t be that much of a problem if we wouldn’t do things like subsidizing agriculture and destroying the ability of the Third World farmers to compete. If we do that and if we eliminate world hunger ( which is doable by a coordinated international effort, in some cases giving people food stamps or some equivalent would suffice since famines are rarely ever caused by the lack of food, it’s lack of affordability) and help turn the developing economies into developed ones then we should demand they start cutting emissions.
Juris
    Environment is paramount. Conflict between environmental protection and economic benefits happens. Activities like mining, logging, and the like are examples of such conflict. A country must either have the other, and it cannot have both at all time. But when that happens, environmental protection must prevail over economic benefits because the former once lost, it’s lost forever. On the other hand, there are many activities aside from the above-mentioned that can help a country enjoy economic success. Ultimately, it is supposed to create more jobs for the indigenous people, and save the environment from destruction, deaths, and disaster.
Cuttiepie3d
    All people have the right to live in a clean, safe environment. Yes, because the right to a clean and safe environment is an important and essential human right that should not be denied on the basis of race, class, ethnicity, or position in the global economic system. When resource extraction compromises this essential human right, it worsens the livelihood of people.
Teie
    A developing nation should not give priority to environmental protection over resource extraction. The reality is that protecting the environment and resource extraction are not inherently diametrically opposed. Even a developing nation is able to temper resource extraction with environmental protection. Because most developing nations rely upon technology provided by companies and governments from more advanced nations, they are able to utilize these tools to accomplish this balanced objective.
Duthes
    There should be a balance between however being overly concerned with the environmental effects of harvesting resources leads to higher costs and the use of foreign resources that are harvested at the same or even higher cost to the environment. In my opinion, very modest regulation on methods should be introduced and enforced, however, if there is no other way to obtain whatever material then there should be no negative repercussions from using a method of extraction that causes harm.
    Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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答案     Should Developing Countries Prioritize Environmental Protection over Resource Extraction?
    In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the metabolic requirements for all animals to survive—air, water and food—are considered to be physiological needs which are the most fundamental ones. Especially, the populations in developing countries are still struggling on these basic needs for necessities in the form of the dilemma between environmental protection and resource extraction. In actuality, what is in urgent need for developing countries is to devise a healthy and balanced concept behind the development, instead of following the developed countries’ old and disastrous pattern in their industrialization at the painful cost of environmental catastrophe and human beings’ decay on the journey of pursuing genuine happiness.
    Those who argue for resource extraction assert that only in this way can developing countries shake off the chain of starvation and indigence, while the opponents defend for the prioritized concern with environmental protection based on the non-renewable resources and vulnerable ecological system.
    The consumerism beneath the pattern of resource extraction to accumulate wealth in the era dominated by industry misrepresents the blueprint for human beings’ happiness. Humans are trapped as worker ants in the hustle and bustle of the remote poor village as well as the modern metropolitan, with the assumption of pursuing happiness at the cost of losing their most precious possession—independence. Although the right to make a penny at whatever cost is seldom challenged, still from the perspective of opportunity cost, the agony suffered from the loss of environment harmony differs in character from the pain out of the absence of resource extraction. Specifically, the possible outcome from the refusal of resource exploitation would be the simplified yet acceptable way of life, like the absence of one digit of zero in the bank account, or a light meal instead of a lavish cuisine. However, the repercussion from the indifference to environmental protection would be rather fatal, such as the lethal chemicals lingered on the land, the air and the water would ultimately doom the whole ecosystem to extinction, including human beings.
    To sum up, the developing countries, on the basis of the bloody lesson proved in the developed countries, are supposed to put forward an evolutionary and green system of development with the due respect for the nature and human beings’ happiness.
解析 本题讨论的是发展中国家在面临资源开采和环境保护的冲突时，该如何取舍。题目要求简要概括所给材料中的观点，并发表自己的看法。在具体的写作过程中，考生可以开篇点明社会现象，并提出论点：发展中国家需要全新的发展理念，而非套用发达国家已被证明代价高昂而被淘汰的模式；第二段简要概括材料中的观点；第三段重点阐述自己对这一问题的看法，并说明理由；最后一段总结全文，重申观点。
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