关于经济发展与环境保护问题的英语对话.pdfVIP

Topic : Work in groups and have a debate on the topic “Economic development or environment protection?” A: Hi, have you heard the Green GDP? B: Yes, the green GDP means the environment cost is taken into consideration when evaluate GDP. A: You are right. There is an opinion that the evaluating system for non-green GDP needs to be ended. It is means that environment protection is important. And what is your opinion on the relationship of economic development and environment protection? B: As we know, China ’s economy is not well developed yet and we must speed up the economic development in order to satisfy peoples material needs. A: I’m afraid I can’t follow your opinion. China ’s economy is not well developed that is a truth. But that is not the reason to develop economy with the environment pollution. B: Don’t you think we must improve people’s living standards? A: Yes, people’s living standards is needed to improve and that is why we should protect our environment. Environment problems can undermine the quality of people’s life. B: You should not neglect that environmental protection also needs a lot of money. A: It will need much more money to repair the environment if it is polluted. At this point, environmental protection will save a lot money and destruction. B: We should not only look at the dark side of the issue. Although economic growth will lead to some environment cost, it will bring more advantages to our nation than the disadvantages. An economically strong nation will have the edge in the world market and it will have a close relationship to the development of our country. A: Maybe you are right on half. Now that we should follow the trend toward economic globalization, we also need to meet the international environmental criteria. B: I think we should search a balance between the environm