英语辩论——环境保护VS经济发展.doc

英语辩论——环境保护VS经济发展Which should receive priority in China? Environmental protection or economic growth. 正方陈词：Good morning everyone! We are here now debating about whether environment protection or economy growth should take priority in China, we think it’s growth that should be chosen. I have three reasons to prove this point. First, as a developing country, the economy power is far behind the developed counties, China have one fifth of the people in the world, but the income of per head is only in 109th among countries. So the urgent affair of China is developing our economy. Second, economy growth doesn’t necessarily conflict with environment protection. We can develop our economy without environment pollution. Third, when our economy strength becomes strong, we can spend more money and energy on environment protection, till then it will be a win-win. In a word, considering the current situations, economy growth should take priority in China. 反方一辩陈词：We agree economic growth is needed. But think about the past decades, we followed the old model of “first pollution, last treatment”, however, how did it come out? The environment problems have become increasingly prominent, and some local regions’ environment has been polluted to a dangerous extent that poses a great threat to our existence. What’s more, the cost was too high and the effect was not up to much. By this means, it placed us in a completely passive position. At the same time the people started voicing new values: quality of life, urban conservation and the environment. So, we must get to the bottom of the problem and learn from the past. That is, in the course of development, we should consider the effect of pollution and receive environment protection in first priority. Only in this way can we solve the environmental problems in the future reasonably. That’s all I want to say. 自由辩论 正方二辩：We all know that in many places of china like many poor countries, where the environment is pretty goodthere are thousand