Some people say that economic growth is the only way to end hunger and poverty, while others say that economic growth is damaging the environment so it must be stopped. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Poverty
is one of the major problems that the world is facing today. To decrease it, economic
development
seems the only way. While others would argue that economic
development
is harmful to the nature and it needs to stop, I believe it should not in order to help the humanity.
To begin
with, developing the economy by establishing the industries, will help to counter the issue of
poverty
. It will create
enormous amount
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an enormous amount
of job opportunities for
unemployed
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the unemployed
as well as poor people.
Also
government will have more money by taxes from these Industries. So it will be used to build houses and provide basic needs to poor people
this
way economic
development
can help to fight with
poverty
.
On the other hand
,
these
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Industries will increase the environmental issues. The exhaust gases from these Industries will create air pollution. In order to build more and more Industries, there will be
need
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needed
to cut down the trees. So the amount of Carbon Dioxide will
also
increase.
As a result
, it will lead to another major problem, global warming.
Also
chemical and other waste from these Industries will make water and land dirty. But all these environmental problems can be controlled by successful efforts of the
government
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government, such
such
as making pollution related norms strict, shutting down only those Industries which are generating more pollution. Finding the effective way to use the alternative renewable energy sources in the industries
by
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of
funding the research and
development
programmes.
Thus
, environmental issues connected to economic
development
can be reduced and we can use it to burn up the
poverty
. To conclude,
poverty
can only
reduced
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reduce
by economic growth.
This
creates some environmental
problems but
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problems, but
it can be solved by major steps of the government.
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