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Development Environmental Protection
Debate Score:26
Arguments:21
Total Votes:26
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 Development (7)
 
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Should Development come First? Or Environmental protection come first?

It is a very common debate but there are still hot debates going around in various competitions.

Development

Side Score: 9
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Environmental Protection

Side Score: 17
2 points

Development always comes first. There is no way for us not to sacrifice short-term development for environmental protection. And seeing as at the moment, short term development is what the people are anxious for, it must take priority. I'm all for being responsible with the environment, but it is not a priority. The economy is far too unstable for any impacting decisions to be made which may affect the economy. I'm going to sound like the biggest dick ever here, but I don't care if Pandas have to die because China needs houses.

Besides, we need development for environmental protection to be effective. Almost all of the alternatives to fossil fuels are not globally viable at the moment, so we must develop these technologies ahead of any action being taken. There is no point replacing a dead battery with one that never worked in the first place.

Side: development
kari(57) Disputed
2 points

Okay I understand that development could make environmental protection more effective. I agree with that.

But, the fact is while we work so hard on thinking of new alternatives, we produce more and more CO2 and as I have said lead to the identification of Global Warming.

And at last, weather changes and it makes the human beings very hard to live. I believe that wasting time on finding a more effective way to protect the environment is useless and what must come first is protecting the environment.

Side: Environmental Protection
ChuckHades(3197) Disputed
2 points

Pop Quiz! Which substance contributes most to Global Warming?

CO2, methane? No! It's actually water vapour. So CO2 plays a miniscule role in Global Warming, though I understand that it is problematic.

Anyway, finding a way to protect the environment efficiently is why development comes first. What would you suggest we do now? Wind power, solar power, biofuels? I can assure you that none of those are globally viable at the moment. Hence why we should develop better technologies.

Side: development
swordtenchi(11) Disputed
1 point

First of all, whose development? Because the disappearance of the Maldives and Bangladesh, as well as myriad costal cities such as New York and Boston due to sea level rise and the destruction of crops in Somalia are definitely not positive for the people affected. Second, what if ecotourism is important to the economy, such as in Costa Rica? I feel as if "development" is really a code word for the provincial interests of certain countries over others, who are OK with ignoring the negative externalities of climate change they end up imposing on everybody.

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

depends as a world, environment, as a country(u.s. canada) development. there are so many countries like china who do nothing to try and stop global warming. until we convince those countries to pinch in nothing we do will matter. so worry heavily about both but we need to focus on our own development just a bit more. as for nuclear energy if we make sure we do everything right it is a great choice in energy. maybe a couple of advancements in disposing of these materials would help, but overall quite good.

Side: development
Bakbergenova(6) Disputed
1 point

don't you think that all environmental problems are global, and they have connections with each other? we cannot separate them. Even if the USA and Canada have some environmental problems, what can you say about Africa? It is non-developed, but there is drought, or Antarctida, where glaciers are melting, because of global warming? All I want to say is that reduction of ozone layer and global warming are problems, which were caused by high-developed countries, but whole world is in danger now

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

no i completely agree. id rather continue business as usual though and try to convince china and co. to start helping out. if china doesn't agree to change, our efforts will be futile for two reasons

1. if china and co. are incooperative they will only get worse cuz they obvs don't care.

2. our carbon emissions are like a fraction of theirs anyway so if we start theres still a shitload of carbon

convince them and continue development and maybe we can think of green developments

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

The air, sea, land, etc.. is polluted too much. However, we need development very bad. We should find clean and cheap ways to develop at the same time keeping the Enviroment clean as possible. It is bad when you have people living around factories that are getting cancer because of some toxic crude from that factory.

Side: Both At Same Speed

I think Development should come first. Environmental protection should be secondary.

Side: Development
1 point

Why should we sacrifice ourselves for the environment!? Development could give us a way to save the environment anyway.

Side: Development
1 point

Because we rely upon the environment for our survival. Sacrificing the environment means sacrificing our future, unless we can get to the point of large scale colonization on other planets (or orbital stations), which we are not particularly close to unfortunately.

Side: Environmental Protection
3 points

Yes, development is important.

But at the status quo, what we must realize is that the environment is being polluted so much!!!

Look, Greenhouse gas effect, Global Warming, Water Pollution, Death of Africans and so on... these are all due to the fact that the environment is being polluted and being overused by people/

If that is to be happening around the world here, why do we have to use so much money and pollute the environment so much?

I believe that after the environment is bring about to the place where it was several hundred years ago, that is when we can start for another development of technology and so on.But, what comes first now is environmental protection.

Side: Environmental Protection

We have to remember that, even if we spend the next ten or twenty years developing an ideal society devoid of poverty, hunger, violence or sorrow, the Earth will still have fallen apart because of our ignorance. We need to protect the environment before ANYTHING else.

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

Of course environmental protection should come first especially nowadays when there are no place in our planet which would not be polluted by gases, radiation and rubbish.

Humanity has reached great success in technology, science, medicine, economy and in other spheres but now we have to pay the high price for it. The nature gave man everything he needed - air, food, water, wood- in order to build homes. For many thousands of years people lived in harmony with the environment and people thought that planet's resources inexhaustible. Industrial progress has caused very serious problem. Nowadays all- soil, air and water are poisoned. If people continue to build factories with the high speed, they will destroy the planet and as the result humankind will slowly die in the venom that was created by own hands.

There is only one way to prevent the great tragedy. People have to think firstly about the consciousness of their activities. We cannot to clean our planet from all pollution that is why we have to think firstly about environmental protection.

of their activities firstly.

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

There is one way of development, which has a little bit controversial name. It called Suistanable development. Suistanable development allows humanity stay alive. It combines development and environmental protection both. There is a point of view that suistanable development is one way of development, taking in consideration current environmental situation.

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

Sustainable development is the great idea. However, people do not want to think about it. Most entrepreneurs think only about profit. Ecology of our planet is damaged and this situation has global level until people will start to think about environmental protection.

Side: Environmental Protection
1 point

I think development is very important.

but If we don't protect environment,

first, we can't get fresh air. trees in the forests produces lots of oxygen. and also they absorb carbon dioxide when we use cars, electronics or etc.

also we can't make products that we use woods. nature have lots of woods. but when we don't protect environment, we can't get lots of woods. and than we can't get some wood product, and also it will be very expensive.

Side: Environmental Protection
Bakbergenova(6) Disputed
1 point

enivonmental protection should be more wide, it is not only planting trees! It should be in a complex, and planting trees is just a small piece of protection.

Side: Development
1 point

I don't know where should I go, but this supposed to be neutral, environment has a big role in the community, on the other hand the developed community must rely with the environment.

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Side: Environmental Protection