2 Economic construction and environmental protection In the long run, environmental protection and economic development are not necessarily contradictory. Environmental improvement may contribute to economic development, which can provide funds and technology for environmental protection. Objectively speaking, economic development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. On the one hand, the sustainable economic development advocated in the 20th century (2 1) is characterized by taking the environment as a part of economic cost, so environmental protection has become a way to reduce costs and improve economic benefits. The persistence and stability of economic development speed depend on the richness of natural resources and sustainable production capacity, so protecting and improving the environment provides material basis and conditions for economic stability and sustainable development. On the other hand, the environmental protection we are talking about today is not only protection or passive prevention, but also the rational development and utilization of the environment on the premise of protection.
Developing economy and protecting environment are the requirements of sustainable development strategy. To develop the economy, we must protect the environment, which is the requirement of natural law. In the process of economic development, if the natural environment is seriously damaged, then we will be severely punished by nature. The proposal of sustainable development provides feasible strategies for economic development and environmental protection.
Sustainable development is a long-term strategy for economic and social development. It refers to meeting the needs of modern people without damaging the ability of future generations to meet their needs. In other words, it refers to the coordinated development of economy, society, resources and environmental protection. They are an inseparable system. We should not only achieve the goal of economic development, but also protect human natural resources and environment, so that future generations can develop sustainably and live and work in peace and contentment.
Of course, China is a developing country. In the final analysis, solving environmental problems depends on development. However, economic development cannot be at the expense of the environment, and we cannot take the road of pollution first and then treatment. Our country's lessons in this respect are extremely profound. Therefore, correctly handling the relationship between economic development and environmental protection, taking the road of sustainable development and maintaining the coordinated development of economy, society and environment is the strategic policy of China's modernization.
Developing economy and managing ecological environment is a problem that combines the current interests and long-term interests of a country. Handling it well will be of great benefit to economic and social development. We should implement the policy of combining economic development with environmental protection, which deals with the problems of economic development and environmental protection from the following aspects.
First, from the point of view that people attach importance to both, we should put environmental protection and economic development in the same position. There may be some conflicts between the two in a short time, but in the long run, after artificial adjustment, economic development and environmental protection will tend to be consistent.
Second, restricting the development of some highly polluting industries in order to protect the environment is not contradictory to the parallel development of economic development and environmental protection. For example, for environmental protection reasons, some places can sometimes appropriately restrict the development of some highly polluting industries and increase investment in other industries, which will not affect the overall economic development trend, but can better protect the environment to a certain extent. Of course, this does not apply to every city and region, depending on the characteristics and resources of each region.
It can be said that environmental protection and economic development are not necessarily contradictory. Environmental improvement may contribute to economic development, which can provide funds and technology for environmental protection. Objectively speaking, economic development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing.
6 Counterargument 1: The economic development of China is the same as that of other countries in the world. It's not that we can't give consideration to economic development and environmental protection, but that people's awareness of environmental protection lags behind economic development, and it's also caused by bureaucracy, selfishness, greed, backward culture and technology. /kloc-the adverse consequences of environmental pollution caused by the rapid development of the French industrial revolution in the 0 th and 8 th centuries should be used as a warning and reference for the world, but no one has done so. The reason is simple: in all the great power competitions, the most urgent thing is the rapid economic development, and economic strength is the fundamental guarantee of world struggle. The country's strength, high-tech national defense construction and people's cohesion are all reflected on the basis of strong economic strength. After China's reform and opening up, the process of rapid economic development has not been spared. Throughout the history of industrial development in the whole world, it is not difficult to see that economic competition is often accompanied by the display of various ideologies and the spread and development of lagging products, which is the tragedy of the environment.
Refutation? I found the other classmate really cute. Why did you talk about it in the old society? Look now, it's already the economic age. With the rapid development of science, when science and technology make environmental protection decisions from reducing social liabilities to generating social assets, when environmental protection brings not only vitality but also unlimited business opportunities, when economic development also promotes and helps environmental protection. Who can deny that they can go hand in hand? Who can deny that they can complement each other?
Objection 2: Today, we also see that many developed countries are improving the environment. Has this achieved the parallel development of economic development and environmental protection advocated by national defense students? No. There are two other points: first, some developed countries are actually sacrificing part of their economic interests to safeguard their environmental interests. For example, Germany has set up a large-scale natural forest protection zone in its territory, and logging is strictly prohibited. This is actually limiting the development of logging industry to maintain the environment, which is called environmental priority, not parallel. Second, more developed countries have passed on the environmental crisis. Japan is unwilling to cut down one of its own trees, but imports a large number of disposable wooden chopsticks from neighboring countries every year. As long as you have a bright future, how can you care about the desperation of others? Is it because the defense side keeps pace with the theory of economic development and environmental protection?
Refutation? Some comrades believe that environmental protection and economic development are antagonistic, and economic development must be sacrificed to protect the environment. These years' practice has proved that correctly handling the relationship between environment and development can promote each other and realize the coordinated development of economy and environment. The environmental protection and economic development in the United States provide us with a good reference. Economic development, environmental protection, economic development can not stop, stop economic growth, control the ecological environment, the so-called? Zero economic growth theory? That will be because of suffocation. Economic development can not only be stopped, but also developed as quickly as possible, otherwise it will never get rid of the backwardness of economy and technology. But it is also wrong to set economic development against environmental protection. In fact, the two are complementary and mutually conditional. Economic development is fundamental. Without economic development and sufficient technology, equipment and investment, it is impossible to protect and control the ecological environment. On the other hand, without a good environment, even people's survival and health can't be guaranteed, and of course there will be no economic development. And once the ecological environment is improved, it can provide conditions for economic development. For example, recycling waste oil can increase social wealth and recycle resources; Planting grass and trees to fix sand has increased the area of grassland and cultivated land and created good conditions for agricultural production. Therefore, today's economic construction is not limited to the creation of material wealth, but also includes the rational development and utilization of natural resources, environmental governance and ecological protection.
7 How to achieve mutual benefit and win-win (parallel)? Environmental protection can be brought into the economic development system and managed as an industry, so that economic subjects can benefit from pollution control and environmental protection, which is consistent with their goal of maximizing profits, making environmental protection a self-interested activity and realizing the transformation from environmental protection to economic development. Of course, this change depends on the change of environmental protection system and management mode, making full use of the advantages of market mechanism, giving economic subjects enough incentives, internalizing environmental issues into the decision-making process of enterprises, making enterprises take actions as decision-making factors, or taking environmental protection itself as a profitable cause before making decisions, so as to achieve a win-win situation for economic development and environmental protection. Therefore, abandoning the traditional environmental protection system, introducing economic policies and means into environmental protection and realizing the innovation of environmental protection system should be an important orientation of future environmental policy.
XX preliminaries: Can economic development and environmental protection go hand in hand?
This is the second debating competition in the preliminary round of the International University Debate Competition held in Singapore in XX. The topic of debate is: (positive) economic development and environmental protection can go hand in hand (University of Hong Kong); Economic development and environmental protection cannot go hand in hand (Wuhan University)
Zheng Yi: Today, our position is that economic development and environmental protection can go hand in hand. Does Modern Chinese Dictionary tell us? Economic development? Refers to the process of social material production and reproduction, from simple to complex, from low to high, and? Environmental protection? It refers to preventing the deterioration of the natural environment, improving the environment and making it suitable for human survival and development. Economic development and environmental protection can go hand in hand, that is to say, they can be implemented simultaneously and develop harmoniously. First of all, objectively speaking, economic development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. On the one hand, the sustainable economic development advocated by 2 1 century is characterized by taking the environment as a part of economic cost, so environmental protection has become.
Ways to reduce costs and improve economic benefits. The persistence and stability of economic development speed depend on the richness of natural resources and sustainable production capacity, so protecting and improving the environment provides material basis and conditions for economic stability and sustainable development. On the other hand, the environmental protection we are talking about today is not only protection or passive prevention, but also the rational development and utilization of the environment on the premise of protection. It is ridiculous to ask mankind to return to civilization to preserve the primitiveness of nature. Today's environmental protection not only cannot require economic stagnation, but also needs the sustained strength of the economy to provide material and technical conditions for environmental protection. From this perspective, economic development and environmental protection are complementary and interdependent, and can go hand in hand.
Proposition 2: First of all, the new concept of sustainable economic development has replaced the wrong concept of one-sided pursuit of economy.
From 65438 to 0992, the United Nations held the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Since then, environmental protection has become the theme of international political and economic negotiations. Vice Premier China made it clear at the Second International Cooperation Conference on Environment and Development that China's economy should take the road of sustainable development and adhere to the comprehensive decision of development and environmental protection. It can be seen that economic development and environmental protection have become a global proposition today. Secondly, the heavy industry economy is gradually replaced by the knowledge economy. As Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said, Singapore will actively develop knowledge economy such as information technology and life sciences in the next decade. Knowledge economy is a low-pollution economic model, and knowledge has brought about a leap in biological science. Finally, we should point out that the role of environmental protection has changed from reducing social liabilities in the past to creating social assets. Environmental protection enterprises have mushroomed, such as environmental protection cars, environmental protection batteries and environmental protection light bulbs. , is a set of environmental protection and economic benefits in one enterprise.
We do not deny that in the historical process of human development, due to the one-sided pursuit of economic growth.
While relatively ignoring the fact of environmental protection. So the layman is blinded by the surface of the facts and thinks that economic development and environmental protection are fierce contradictions and cannot go hand in hand; However, the wise men have to say that they are not natural contradictions, they are just a pair of man-made contradictions. So-called? Water can carry a boat and overturn it? The key is how people do it. With the development of human society, a temporary man-made contradiction cannot deny an objective fact, and economic development and environmental protection can go hand in hand. Finally, looking at today's human society, the traditional values of high prices of goods, low prices of resources and priceless environment have long been out of date. It has become the main theme of human development to protect the environment while developing economy and promote civilization without forgetting nature. The rapid development of science and technology enables human beings to develop the economy while protecting the environment. Making plastics with carbon dioxide is the best example. The transformation of economic model, the arrival of knowledge economy and the maturity of environmental protection economy all strongly prove to us that economic development and environmental protection can and will go hand in hand. Thank you.
Square four: environmental protection and economic development are not contradictory, not the kind of mutual relationship without me.
Exclusion. As long as the appropriate economic development model is chosen, it will not bring devastating pollution or damage to the environment. Moreover, there are areas with good environment and developed economy, which directly proves that the two can exist. Economic development and environmental protection are complementary and interdependent, and they can go hand in hand. Developing economy and protecting environment are the requirements of sustainable development strategy and natural law. The proposal of sustainable development provides feasible strategies for economic development and environmental protection. The connotation of sustainable development has two basic aspects, namely development and sustainability. Development is the premise and foundation, and sustainability is the key. Without development, there is no sustainability. Without sustainability, development will end.
Sustainable development is the unity of development and sustainability, which complement each other and are mutually causal. If you give up development, you can't persist.