Your professor is teaching a class on public administration. Write a post responding
to the professor’s question.
In your response, you should
express and support your personal opinion
make a contribution to the discussion in your own words
An effective response will contain at least 100 words. You have ten minutes to write.
Professor
Professor: As environmental protection develops, more people have come to realize that everybody should play a part in preserving the planet we live on. These years, many people
want to protect and improve the natural environment. In terms of what individuals in their daily lives could do if they want to protect the environment, some put forward walking
or bicycling instead of driving a car to work or school, while others recommend buying locally grown organic foods grown without pesticides, and which one do you think would work better?
Lila
Lila: I think walking or cycling instead of driving works better in reducing carbon emissions. Everybody needs to commute, and a lot of people drive every day. If they can switch to walking or riding bicycles, the outcome of such a collective effort would be considerable.
Steve
Paul: Buying locally grown organic foods is more effective, I think. Growing crops organically means giving up pesticides to get rid of pests, which significantly reduces pollutants that pose great threats to soil and water. Therefore, the food chain could be less contaminated.
For individuals to do in their daily lives to protect the environment, I think walking or cycling instead of driving works better than promoting organic foods. Steve did have a point when he talked about how organically grown crops help reduce water and soil pollution. However, he did not see the practicality of the approach. First, organic foods are so much more costly that they are not universally affordable for most people. Besides, organic crop yields are rather small compared to the demand. If organic foods replaced all regular foods, food supplies would be insufficient and people would starve. Lila, by contrast, proposed a much more viable option. In addition to the considerable outcome of the collective effort she mentioned, it is quite feasible. It is true that some people live far away from where they work or go to school, but not everybody does. In fact, quite a number of people live within walking or cycling distance from their workplace or school. Considering the health benefits and the universal lack of exercise nowadays, a lot of people would be fully motivated to do so. In short, walking or cycling instead of driving is a better option than promoting organic foods.
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