 #1 (permalink) Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:05 am Is progress always good? |
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Do you agree or disagree that progress is always good?
Is progress always good?
When it comes to the much debated issue that whether progress is always good, some people hold the opinion that progress has always been good, while others prefer to deny their saying. As far as I am considered, I deem that progress is not always good, following accounts rendered below.
To some extend, I concede that Progress owns a few merits. Taking technology for example, the highly development of technology has improved our condition of lives, as well as making a great contribution to our human society. Things that imagined in the past have become true today. We are able to communicate with our relatives in the other part of the earth within a second, even talking with them with web-camera because of the advanced technology. In that case, we are in favor of the good effect of progress.
However, progress is that always good? History shows that progress always has its cost. China’s economic growth over the past 30 years has been truly remarkable. Standards of living have gone up dramatically, but the progress has caused grave aspects. With gap between the rich and the poor, crime and property and other some social problems have become more and more alert, which intrigued a successive problem like the unequal distribution of population, the damaged environment, such “progressive” human activity might not be undone for hundreds of years, affecting the lives of Chinese people for generations to come.
Likewise the progress of our world, have come at a heavy price. Even though we’re developing at a high speed, people in many parts of the world still die of starvation, and the global energy shortage presents a problem at the price of progress. Even we use all kinds of means to prevent it happening, we still cannot change the situation practically.
Based on what I have mentioned above, although progress owns some merits, there are still drawbacks we couldn’t ignore.
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