Economy vs Environment

United States
December 6, 2006 11:05am CST
Which do you think is the most important for us to sustain? The economy or the environment?
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15 responses
@raj0019 (2623)
• Argentina
7 Dec 06
i think environment should get the priority, as we have to stay alive and healthy. We can make economy better if we are healthy and able to work hard
• United States
7 Dec 06
I agree! Thanks for your response!
@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
30 Dec 06
I also agree, without clean environment the economy will decline at the end, it's sad that people who manipulate the economy only look for their own short term profits even if it hurts the environment, they don't care what happens in the future because they think they can always make more and more money no matter what.
• India
6 Dec 06
Economy - Economy can be increased by the health and manufacturing of products
Economy is based on Government where as Environment is based on public peoples so we have to maintain environment regularly and also Economy can be increased whenever the government requires money
• United States
6 Dec 06
Thank you for your response!
@ilyasjan (803)
• Pakistan
3 Jan 07
dear i will prefer to economy. economy will facilitate us then perhaps no any environment will have.
@Eskimo (2315)
30 Dec 06
Both of these are connected, without a stable economy then there will be no resources to put into care for the environment. If the environment is not protected then eventually the world will become a much worse place to live in.
• India
2 Jan 07
Environment is the most important for us because we can earn money in a few days if lost but we cannot get good environment if we lose it(how much money if you spend) so accrding to me enviroment is best for us then only we can earn lot of money.
• India
30 Dec 06
i feel both are very important in their own ways and both need to be sustained ....!! but environment deserved to be sustained more cause what will u do with all the money if u don't have a world healthy enough to live in ....??
@ahsanxr (341)
• Pakistan
30 Dec 06
i think that the environment is much more important for us to sustain than the economy. most of the countries already have developed economies and they are destroying the environment. we can live with a slightly underdeveloped economy but we cannot live without a good environment.
@mypigbox (2245)
• China
21 Dec 06
There is not contradictory between Economy and Environment.The first thing is we only have one earth.Protecting the tree,the grass ,the lake,the mountain,and the river.They are the basis of life for us.
• China
30 Dec 06
At first, people must survive, so they can ignore the enviroment. But with the development of the economy, enviroment is destroyed. So peopel start to protect it & thake it as the first priority. So which is improtant, it should depends on the real situation.
• India
30 Dec 06
Environment is the most important than another for an individual and to contry...what a person are a coutry will do without proper environment which leads to illness....Also the economy of the contry will deponds on the natural resources nothing but environment..that is why Arab countries economy is higher than another country...what u people say???
• India
30 Dec 06
I feel it should be the environment that should be sustained than economy. Because environment is the nature and it acts like a mother for all of us. Without it we cannot even live. There is no way in which we can develop environment after sustaining the economy. But we can do it in the other way. So please everyone make good for the environment as far as you can.
@ilunice (947)
• Netherlands
30 Dec 06
The question is not very clear to me. nevertheless, i will try to answer it. the two are interelated. They cannot be separated. i am working on something related to this issue. the work focuses on the relationship between poverty and the environment (spatial location and poverty). The apriori arguement is that the enviroment plays a significant role in the livelihood of people. and whe the environment is poor, the likelihood that the people will be poor is high. to state sucinctly, when the environment is poor, the economy will be down and hence the people will be poor. so will nee conducive environment for economic activities to thrive well so that we can have better standard of living
• India
30 Dec 06
environmnt only
• India
30 Dec 06
its definitely environment.... wat u gonna do wth a gud econ.. u'll dvlop the environmnt.. so econ shudd be a way to maintain environ n it shudd not destroy the environ..
@sheraldea (263)
• Philippines
21 Dec 06
I believe it is important to sustain the environment. Foremost is to be able to live to do other things. It will enable us to have a clear outlook in life, clear thinking and clear actions.