Dilemma between Blind Pursuit of Higher Economic Growth & Protecting our Environment

Personally, I think that it is a dilemma and one that is serious as sacrifices would be made. First, we consider about our natural greenery and the other to consider is our industries that is concerning our economic growth.

 I think that instead of having a dilemma to focus on one, we can balance both economic growth and protection of environment at the same time. Firstly, a country like Singapore is a small island surrounded by water, and if we focuses on the economic growth, more space would be used to build factories and more trees would be cut in order to create space for the building of factories. But doing this also causes Singapore to not have enough trees to take in the carbon dioxide, moreover this would then lead to global warming which is what every country is trying to avoid. Moreover, the factories that are built and the products that are made may not be popular and the companies would suffer great loss and the environment too. Although focusing on industries and economic growth can also offer more jobs to the people, but it would then cause the greenery to be lost. Having a large land such as China, with large population too, if they focuses on economic growth, there will also be large contribution to global warming. Moreover, the process of building factories causes air pollution which will cause the country and the people's health to deteriorate.

If we protect our environment, it will allow the people to have a clean and green city to settle in, and people would be less prone to sicknesses. Yet, if the country just focuses on protecting their environment, the country would not develop in terms of industrialisation as well as the other countries. The economy of the country would then not progress and the country may not be able to get help/investments from other countries since the focus was on environment.

 In a nutshell, I think that there is no perfect solution or perfect choice between the two as both stand equally. Thus, I think that the best way for the country to progress and develop is to put in the same amount of effort on both economic growth and protecting the country's development.