What is your opinion on going green?

Question

I am writting a persuasive speech for my 9th grade english class and i need an oposite side to going green. i support it but i need people to write why they dont support going green thank you.

Answer 1

To save ourselves from destruction. I think that is very powerful if people realize we do not have enough time. If you want to write the opposite side - you can say the government only "say" they supports but really deep down they still want to control people and make hard for people to go green. It does not matter what we ordinary people do, they always want a means to control us.

Eating meat ( no offense) is a major cause from UN report. That is a very good evidence to convince the audience if you decide to the write the other way around. :)

http://www.yourformulasheet.com/Global%2...

Answer 2

If you need an anti-green stance, the arguments I usually hear are:

-I don't want to take the time to recycle.

-Going green is a conspiracy set up by people who just want to make money.

-It won't make any difference.

-I won't be alive anymore when the real problems come.

-The human race is too small to cause permanent damage to the Earth.

-Some little-known source I found says that the whole thing is fake.

All of these are weak, irresponsible, and generally ridiculous, but if you go through Yahoo Answers and look around answers in the environmental section, you will see quite a few people saying things just like this.

Answer 3

Some people mistakenly think that "going green" is expensive.  In fact, I've saved a ton of money by living a green lifestyle for the last 40 years.

Some people think "going green" will cost jobs.  It may.  But then, buggy whip makers lost their jobs as the world around them changed.  NEW jobs will be created.

Some people argue that "going green" is simply a marketing ploy with little practical effect.  For SOME products and companies, that is true, but not for all.  Shaklee products I used back in the 70's have always been "green."  "Green" labels can be misleading, so actually reading the labels or doing a little research on the product can be required.  Some may object that it is "too difficult."  I disagree, and think that living in a polluted and depleted world would be much MORE difficult.

Going green can be inconvenient if your community does not make recycling readily available.  Our little town offers only paper recycling.  I have to haul the recyclables to another town when I am going that way anyway, which means that quite a bit accumulates and it can be a storage problem.  I still do it, but many simply do not.

I'm hard pressed to find reasons to support the "opposite" side.  Good luck.

Answer 4

I do not have a counter argument for you, but I did content that the time going greenis just a persuasive argument to get people to do something they should be doing all along anyway.  It is to build enthusiasm in people who feel they are powerless and cannot change the environment.  Perhaps this sounds a little on the negative side, but I think it would be better served to just pay people for their garbage and they would be more likely to sort it, but everything the way it should be, and make it easier on the environment.  I just think the term going green is just a silly expression.  However I am definitely for recycling.  I hope this helps you.