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.

[EmeraldKnight]

much of the deficit comes from the war..the us is spending so much on it that other things like quality of life, education and enviroment get less attention. if your pre-occupied with other things like war then the quality of life can't help but go down

Yes, and because of the war the economy's down, so we need to work on that first, before we start focusing on the environment