Can the nation balance conservation with economic progress?

Question

I need the pros and cons of Conservation Controversy and find out if our nation can balance economic progress with conservation?

Answer 1

Not only can the nation balance conservation with economic progress, but conservation can fuel progress.

Reducing the amount of resources required to for economic progress will increase the profits of businesses and reduce the costs for energy production.

Reducing the amount of resources mined or drilled for will reduce the need to protect wildlife and land. That will reduce the need to declare sites parks and preserves and cut down on the cost of defending these sites from prospectors.

Reducing energy consumption will reduce costs for both businesses and the government which will increase revenues for both businesses and the government.

Improving the air quality and overall decreases in pollution and deforestation will reduce the costs for health care and allow people to live longer healthier lives.

Take care,

Troy

Answer 2

who knows?

Answer 3

Not while the Congress and other politicians are only looking at how fat their own wallets can get off the people. They need problems so they can say TAX.

There solution to environmental problems is the same as every other problem-- The PEOPLE have to do it.

There are 2 problems with this:

1) The people are getting more and more dependant on the Government or the Law to solve problems ( and this is causing a lot more problems)

2)Every time the people fix something, the Government unfixes it because they want the taxes more than the resolution to problems.

Take California's Educational system. It was failing all over the place, then in the late 90s the Canlifornia Voters initiated a 20 students per teacher Max requirement. All of a sudden, kids from all areas, including the most impoverished, started being qualified for and trying to go to College. There were record enrollements at all the 4 year and 2 year colleges.

Then the 4year universities raise tuition ( something like 3 times what it was) and cut the enrollment rates that they were offering. This cause the 4yr students to transfer to 2yr colleges, which had the tuition more than doubled, and there are always more students than class seats, but after what the 4yr schools did, there were too many students for the too many students.  Then the state stepped in and said there was not enough money to give themselves a 12% pay raise (politicians who already were making $100, 000) and keep the 20 students per teacher ratio. So the changed it to 30 students per teacher ( which they did before when the student population started to increase in the early 80s). The student enrollments into colleges are dropping again, and again we see in our capitols, that they are complaining about the crappy education again ( ignorring the fact they ruined the peoples established law to get it there again).

Answer 4

It may be difficult but its possible. However some forms conservation like recycling is both good for the environment and the economy. Recycling helps the economy by preventing inflation in prices of goods, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce energy costs in extracting raw materials, etc. This results in buisness being able to gain more profit for their final final product's sales. So yes there are ways conservation can work with economic progress. It depends on the actions you take, the way you conserve, and what technology is availible. Sometimes it may involve creativity.

Answer 5

Absolutely.

Oil was so cheap till yesterday that it was cheaper to produce, transport stuff (and to transport again and discard) than to recycle and reuse.

With costlier oil. recycle and reuse will be far better options.

Read the recycling related post on my blog

http://savingenergy.wordpress.com/2006/1...

Recycling offers significant advantages to both businesses and people. There you have conservation and economy in synergy.

Answer 6

Troy was right in his well thought out answer, but he overlooks one detail and that is the corporate system that places a priority on immediate, short-term return on investment in order to retain and attract investment capital.

While a balance is possible, it is unlikely until our economic system recognizes Troy's points and, more importantly, decides to spend the money it will take to achieve such a balance.  This is what sustainable growth is all about.

The other problem is that the there are a lot of developing nations in the world and these countries, like China and India, are trying to grow so hard and so fast that their concerns for conservation take a back seat to their efforts to raise the standards of living for their citizens. The fact that U.S. and European companies ship their manufacturing operations to these countries to take advantage of a large, low-cost labor pool and virtually no environmental regulation only makes the attempt to reach the balance you ask about that much more difficult on a global scale.

Answer 7

The nation can balance conservation with economic progress.

ex here in Oklahoma there is a paper company that has a tree farm instead of clear cutting in a nearby national forrest.

There are also several wind farms that are being built across the US.

The reason some of the things that can be done are not happening is because of lack on knowledge.

This is not just companies but also the public and the federal government.