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Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

The economy wouldn't need fixed if the do-gooders would have a little bit of common sense. Somebody is on a crusade to save what doesn't need saving. OSHA, EPA, labor unions; are the problem, not the solution. I deal with this crap everyday. The winning bid on a resent demolition job was $326,000. The asbestos abatement was 60% of the the total bid. The whole job could have been done for less than the abatement cost. There is something very wrong when a supposed hazard adds this much to a job. OSHA requires you to wear a safety harness when working anything above 4 feet off the ground. This adds to the cost of a job. It hinders ones ability to work efficiently and you have to buy all the approved gear. Unions cause companies to pay to much for help, UAW for example.Forget the environment there isn't going to be anybody around to enjoy it. Can't afford to exist.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Economy need fixing but Environment needs saving. To fix an Economy there are two approaches, which is to let it correct itself which is free economy and the other is with intervention. Whether the economy has been fixed or not human still live on.We are like on a massive wooden ship where we are now very concern about the speed the ship is going and the rate we are consuming food. All these squabble are going on when we ourselves are pulling planks off the hull on the very ship we are sailing. Once we sink no matter how fast we sail it no longer matters, no matter how much food we conserve it does not matter much as well. If the ship sink we are all doomed.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

I say the economy (even though we are going at it wrong). Gloom and Doom, broken models would have us believe that the environment comes first.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

People are suffering so badly in this economy that I believe we need to address this first if not in tandem with the environment. I seriously believe it can be done his way if the economy is strangethened so that we will have the funding needed to set ourselves free from overseas oil production and costs thereof.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

I know you think people are suffering badly because of the economy but alot more people are suffering in a much worse way because of the environment and greed. Take a look at those who's drinking and bathing water systems are polluted due to mining or food shortages are caused through the destruction of their hunting and foraging areas, or next to slave labour of children to provide the western world with cheaper shoes. Not everyone chooses to live in a money oriented world but everyone does want a world to live in
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: mother earth demands blood sacrifice

Yes, blame the environment. It is the environments fault. Everyone point the finger of blame at the environment.Oooooh, its soooooo unfaiiiiiir. Wa wa wa. Typical whiner mentality.Blame everyone but yourslef. Heres an idea, go live in the tropical paradise of Honduras for a year, then get back to us. We will be dyyyying to know how it was. But dont bring any medicine or western supplies... that would be greedy!
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

The economy doesn't need MORE help, per se; it just needs to be fixed first. If we fix our economy, we will be better able to fund the fight against "global warming."
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Fix the economy. There is no such thing as environmentalist. just hypocrites. The proof of this lays within themselves, they own cars that put pollutes in the air, they buy non biodegradable items, they use electric generated by coal fired power plants, etc. Are they really concerned at the environment or just wanting notoriety?
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

what the people supporting fixing the environment need to realize is the fact that without fixing the economy there is no money to fix the environment.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

How could we fix the environment if we have no money to fix it with? We don't really have a choice as to which one we would want to fix. If our economy is in recession, then we really don't have the means to spend any more money on a greater cause. If our economy was deemed efficient though and there was a choice between investing in our economy to make it grow, or investing in the environment to make the world a better place to live, then I would choose the environment. On this particular question, however, the only possible answer is the economy.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

La actividad más importante del hombre es la economía, primero nos alimentamos para poder hacer las diferentes acciones. Sin embargo no basta con expresar esto, porque al estar todo concatenado, son determinantes las relaciones sociales, y en este aspecto, que no haya explotación y constreñimiento en contra de los trabajadores, las gentes, los pueblos y las naciones, es clave respetar la autonomía y la soberanía. No basta con que hayamos superado la comunidad primitiva, sino que la esclavitud, el feudalismo (servilismo, monarquismo) y el no reconocer el valor del trabajo por lo producido, crea conflictos que no se resolverán hasta que valoremos a cada quien por lo que aporta a la sociedad y comencemos por los mas necesitados. Aplicar la ciencia, la tecnología y desarrollar una cultura avanzada, que rija la fraternidad predica de manera vacía por el capitalismo. Abandonar los rezagos del individualismo, el grupismo, el utilitarismo y la componenda.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

First I should point out that the environment has gone through millions of years of natural disasters, asteroids, volcanic eruptions, and mass extinctions and still survived. I really don't think a century of human activity is going to catastrophically mess things up like all the environmentalists seem to believe. It would be prudent to clean up our act, but right now the economy is a more pressing issue.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

The economy needs more help. We can't let something like this put us further in debt and destroy America.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orTEyYR87iI
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Fixing the environment, which I believe to be a euphemism for "lessening our dependence on oil", requires money. Lots of money. At the moment, we have no money. If we are to develop alternative energy then we had best do so when we are wealthy again and can do so properly. To the opposition: where is the money supposed to come from if we don't fix the economy first?
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

The environment is very important. However we will be able to help it more when we have a stable economy and lots of 'spare money' to spend on new and existing green technologies. Also at the moment the economy is in a situation in which, if anything gets any worse, human lives will suffer through homelessness, and a lack of resources to help those in our increasingly imminent natural disasters, which will indirectly go against human rights
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

It is impossible to fix the environment before the economy. Economy creates wealth, so the more wealth is created, the more we care about the environment. Protecting the environment eventually comes.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

It's simple: The economy so that we are stable enough and have enough money to help save the enviroment. Basic.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

To what extent we can improve the environment, it will be through the efficient use of scarce resources. The best way to find the most efficient use of finite resources is free market capitalism. Therefore, if you fix the economy, by allowing the free market to function as it is supposed to, you are already doing the maximum you can to reduce the negative effects of the wasteful use of scarce resources.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Right, because free market capitalism is the only system. which we can accurately calculate where these scarce resources will efficiency be allocated.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

I don't think I will vote for this side, but they must work in balance, otherwise, the growth of economy can be a source of environmental catastrophe. If you are working on manufacturing and industrial firm, regardless of how technology you use, you must know how to become creative, converting industrial waste to renewable energy is a example of balance ideology.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Despite what many people will tell you, Global Warming has been proven to be a scam. Yes a third of the ice on earth is shrinking, but another third is growing, and another third is doing absolutely nothing. Do we need to be careful not to destroy the planet? Sure. Are we doing any real damage with non-eco cars and the like? Nope. If you want to talk CO2 production, termites and cows have us beat. Less than 1% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is from humans, and guess what, that isn't going to change any time soon. The economy needs fixed first, because that will affect more people more rapidly.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Fix the economy first and then tackle the environment. Too many people who need jobs and places going out of business.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Don't you need money to fund things like saving the environment? There, argument finished.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Don't you need a livable environment in order to do things like making money? There, argument finished.We need to balance the two.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Well we do need to grow cotton and such, but the environment is not as fragile! The economy can collapse easily, but the environment fixes itself over time (yes, many many many years, but it's not like the economy can miraculously get better without our intervention).
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

I understand that the environment is slow on fixing itself. It takes thousands upon thousands of years for minuscule change. But it really shouldn't take too long to fix the economy and get us 180 degrees from the recession. We're on our way there, but I think we have some work to do. Of course, I promote multitasking. ;)"Our planet is not expected to experience another such periodic warming/cooling for another 20,000 to 30,000 years."I'm not saying that's normal, but I'm certainly not saying it isn't. Why is it that once scientists predict something based on past data, the same must occur in the future no matter what? The data can suggest an outcome, but it's never 100% fool proof. Maybe the prediction was another 20,000 to 30,000 years, but in reality it was supposed to be 10,000 to 15,000 years. We don't know. Sure, I agree we are speeding it up slightly, but I honestly don't think human beings have caused as much effect as before our time, what with volcano eruptions, meteor strikes, and the countless amount of animals with flatulence issues. :) lol
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Why is it that once scientists predict something based on past data, the same must occur in the future no matter what?...We don't know.What are you talking about? Scientists aren't claiming to have magic crystal balls that see the future, they're just drawing conclusions from the available evidence. Obviously when deciding future actions we have to look at past data in order to make an educated guess as to the best course of action.I honestly don't think human beings have caused as much effect as before our time, what with volcano eruptions, meteor strikes, and the countless amount of animals with flatulence issues. :) lolAnd you're basing this view on what exactly? Are you not aware that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere far exceeds that of any time in history? Do you not understand how the greenhouse effect works? Have you looked at any of the information andsoccer has provided here and in other debates?
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Yes. I have looked at it and I fully understand the concept of global warming and greenhouse effect (not as much as somebody who studies it, but as much as the average person.)
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

What, you looked at the wikipedia page?Understanding the concepts of two of the many problems facing our environment does not qualify you to assess the state of the environment today or forcast it's future.And that said, I'm sorry to say that you probabbly know more than the average person. But probably less than the average fourth grader....
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Uh, yah it can. Countries will bounce out of recession eventually with or without gov. intervention. The difference is in duration and severity. Before the state became active in trying to keep the economy stable economies would be in periods of growth just as often as in periods of recession. They were horrible and lasted years. Nowadays recessions last on average only a couple years and we have serious ones only a couple times a century. Nevertheless, it is not true that an economy can't pull itself out of a recession given enough pain and time as evidence of the 19th century.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: mother earth demands blood sacrifice

Well, only if you insist upon modern accoutrements like plumbing, water, electricity, transport, medicine, etc.. but these are implicit to any argument communicated over the internet.sooooo.....BOOOOYAAAAAAAAOf course if you disagree, the only solution is to go live in a malaria infested swamp without any electronics, quinine, or mosquito nets, map, gps, or viagra pills. Only then can you complain you fucking hypocrites.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Economy in this world is ever changing. Like it or not we had evolved so much over the years of mankind life. One thing that had never changed is the treatment to the environment. Fixing the environment is not as difficult as most think. It is to build an economy that is more accommodating to the environment.The economy now is build on the basis of ignoring the environment as it is has a vast reserve that we cannot finish using. Just like financial product had evolved from private to group products like funds and stuff. Draining on the reserve had been from individual like burning of firewood to chopping down of whole forest for the world community. Fixing the environment will eventually fix the economy because we must accept the fact like good weather might not necessary help the economy but a bad weather will definitely devastate the economy. With no home how do we build our country?Economy needs a shift in its focus. Instead of being a resource draining economy to a more of a mankind self sustaining kind of economy. We create energy with minimum pollution to earth and we create product from what we already has. People pay organization to tackle environmental issue. Plant more trees from better environment. Instead of paying $200 for a air purifier, pay $200 on a tree for the community.Remember $2 million of estate left for your family will diminish in its value over the years but $2 million of environment saving effort you contribute will be felt for centuries.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

I completely agree with this and I think that all the people who want the economy to be fixed first will change their view when the world floods because the polar ice caps have melted.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

The environment is forever; the condition of Earth affects the entire world and will affect the future as well as the present. The economy is a situation that is very much rooted in the right now and is affecting a (relatively) small amount of countries, although the countries that are being affected are the largest contributors to the world economy. Regardless, we need to take care of our home before we can worry about money.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: mother earth demands blood sacrifice

stop taking up space you ####### hypocrite............................................................
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Well, that's cute.The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.(Although it doesn't stop you....)
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: Sustainability

Recent research is providing us with evidence that the paradigm that in order to fix the environment you have to sacrifice economics, is wrong. The current economic model is wasteful and productivity can rise if we are more mindful of our resources and manage them well. We have to be creative and stop this line of thinking... sustainable development IS possible.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: mother earth demands blood sacrifice

No one is stopping you,....So please be creative, and share with us the solution to all our woes.Until then you better stop calling everyone else wasteful and accusing them of mismanaging their resources,....it only makes you look fat.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Well you can't really say "the economy" or "the environment" because you need to look at issues on a case by case basis. For example, offshore drilling would probably provide more benefit to the economy than damage to the environment, so we should do it. On the other hand, global warming is a serious threat due to rising sea levels and because it could cause widespread crop failure. In this case we should take action to prevent it even at (short-term) cost to the economy. Failing to do so would cause much damage to the environment and be worse for the economy in the long run.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: mother earth demands blood sacrifice

The economy.The environment.consider yourself disputed.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

Our planet is sick. We need to get off oil and convert to alternate energy. Global Warmingis 50-50 man made-and natural. half and half. we still need to stop treating our planet as a big waste-basket.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the economy needs more help

Actually, our planet is fine.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q3upFx4FcA
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: NUKE THE BITCH

Indeed, our planet is sick, very sick, that is why the only solution is a MASSIVE ENEMA to purge mother earth of her sickness. A few H-bombs in mount Vesuvius and a few more in the mid Atlantic ridge aught to do the trick.
Debate: Present day, is it more important to focus on fixing the economy or the environment?
Side: the environment first

I would go so far as to say that I think we should stop supporting any economy who is so blatantly sticking their tongue out in our faces by totally disreguarding the world environment soley for the economical gain. It totally sucks how some countries are doing everything they can to not sacrifice the environment, at the cost of unemployment and non development and other countries are mowing down important forests, and allowing factories to spew out pollution and undercutting the careful countries prices, further adding to their economical burden. Although I think we need to look after the environment I think we also need to make it a world wide thing. Jobs for our people are important too. We need to keep it in perspective.