Environment vs. Economy Options

[*Kathleen*]

All right, so since I want to see a different topic out there...this one's from February's Lincoln-Douglas topic:

Resolved: A government's obligation to protect the environment ought to take precedence over its obligation to promote economic development.

I'm on the negative side for this, seeing that only by providing a healthy, stable economy can you be able to help the environment. The products of a good economy are what help improve the environment.

Haha don't worry...I have more points...I've researched both sides to this, so bring it on.

[xjjajeengx]

Hehe (I'll be nice) more people die from living in poverty because they're government has an unstable economy opposed to how many people actually die from pollution-related causes.

still scary... i dont think i was meant to be a debater.
Well, i think that if the people had more land to live off of then they wouldnt die so much. i mean, i think its like government's fault for taking all the land and cutting down the trees to use the land for buisnesses and to get more money. Yes, money is an important factor, but if people were to base their lives on making the enviornment more better instead of being so money hungry and so economy-ish (hahaha no word for that!! ) i think the world would be better... i mean, other country's economies partly are not stable in economy because stable economies (ike that of U.S.) are so power hungry!! We all came from living off of the land, i think that economy and all this complex stuff coming through made the poor and rich gap larger and stuff (okay, and im like "where does this all fit in?" )

Well, there are also new studies and medical things and whatnot that arise from the good economy.

But there are also many deaths that arise from economy; car accidents soared up because we have so many cars and sometimes very careless drivers who cease to understand the need to drive carefully since their insurance covers everything. Once again, the economy's stability is what puts a huge gap between the poor and the rich, and not to mention puts middle class people at a disadvantage...

Hehe are you talking about that little thing called global warming by any chance?  It's funny because scientists in the seventies were complaining about global cooling...turns out they were wrong.

My bad. But it is proven that trees help cool the temperature down. (i think* i heard this from science class)

Oh man i was right!! Kathleen is a crazy debater!! all her facts are like WHOOSH im working on this debate thing so technically im a newb