Question: What is your opinion of projects such as the Three Gorges Dam?( or similar project in your home country). Given the costs, both economic and environmental, do the positive aspects outweigh the negative, or vice versa?
The new Tan Tao Industrial Zone has been known as one of the biggest industrial zones in Vietnam with over 200 investors and 150,000 employees. Each year, the zone contribute a great amount of profits to the government. However, apart from the bright side of the impressive growth, this industrail zone has also had huge impact on Ho Chi Minh city’s environment, and has become the most threatening factor to people’s quality of life in the city. There are two severe effects on the environment caused by factories of the Tan Tao: air pollution and overusing natural resources. As an expert on pollution in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment stated, only 15 percent of the industrial zone’s foreign-invested companies responded to requests from local environmental inspection agencies to reduce pollutants. There are many reasons causing air pollution, but mainly it originates from gas emissions of several factories inside the zone. While the number of such industrial factories in the zone has risen significantly, the amount of exhausted gases has rapidly increased as well. Another impact as mentioned before is the decrease in amount of natural resources caused by factories inside the zone. As the heavy industrial factories always require a great deal of raw materials, more and more minerals are nearly used up. Great pressure is also put on biological resources due to the demand of adequate supply of food to maintain the integrity of the industrial zone. In conclusion, when vigilantly considering the costs of both economic and environmental aspects, we see that the Tan Tao’s effects on environment in Vietnam should be more seriously warned. The government must enact essential laws immediately to protect the environment against the industrial zone’s impact.
4 comments:
we all know that we need industralization for our country and and our offspring.WE cannot change it,right?the government is just know what we shuold do and what we can do to balance it.
Same is the case with my country:( wish we could make a difference but "we" are too few in number:(
It is really difficult to protect environment while a country is growing especially in industrial. Because if industries have to consider environment, they will have to pay a quite large amount of money which, of course, not easy for them as they are still growing.
Everything has both possitive and negative effects, and also the Three Gorges Project".
If the project can bring more benefits than damages, it is worthy to do so.
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