Topic 95

95. Some people think governments should spend as much money as possible exploring outer space (for example, traveling to the Moon and to other planets). Other people disagree and think governments should spend this money for our basic needs on Earth. Which of these two opinions do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

FUNDAMENTAL NEEDS ON EARTH SHOULD BE CONSIDERD FIRST

From my standpoint, I hold that government should spend as much money as possible in meeting basic demands on Earth, instead of exploring outer space. People who live on Earth are the most important concern and should receive priority over experimentations on other planets in Milk Way galaxy. There are numerous reasons of doing so.

As a threshold matter, exploring outer space doesn’t mean much for us who live in Earth. Take several exploring trials in America, which aims to find whether there are livings in other planets. After all, what can we get from a rabbit eating grass on Mars? In effect, we cannot benefit from such experiments. Moreover, the little outcomes do not match enormous invests spent by government. Exploring outer space also is under high risks. For example, the discovery aircraft exploded a few minutes later after it launched into space, which caused several millions dollars' lost. Moreover, people who lost their lives cannot return back any more.

Secondly, compared with outer space exploration, fundamental needs on Earth are much more imperative. For instance, a considerable number of folks who live in Africa do not have sufficient food supply and experience food scarcity. They will die without international help -- food and other necessities. Another paramount problem is diseases that have been rampant through out the world: no matter developing countries or developed states. Perhaps the paradigmatic, epidemic disease is HIV infection. In almost each country, considerable persons have been suffered from this disease which leads to high death rates.

Thirdly, on Earth, the environment is another thorny issue with which that government ought to be concerned. In contemporary, several kinds of pollution have contributed various harm impacts on environment. For instance, deforestation in Eastern Hemisphere has caused several species face the crisis of extinction; over-produced greenhouses gas cannot be immediately absorbs by fewer forests. As a result, temperature of Earth increases stably. Rising sea level has induced that residents who live near coastlines have to move to other locations. Furthermore, severe weather conditions, such as storms, avalanches, and pouring rain, take place more and more frequently. All these things need to be solved in a hurry, and government should spend money on them.

In summary, crisis on Earth is quite more fatal than ventures into outer space. Therefore, in the final analysis, government ought to spend all sorts of resources -- for example, material resources, human resources, to meet basic needs on Earth.