GRE Issue Topic 144

GRE Issue Topic 144

Topic:

The best way to solve environmental problems caused by consumer-generated waste is for towns and cities to impose strict limits on the amount of trash they will accept from each household.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

بهترین راه برای حل مشکلات زیست محیطی ناشی از زباله های تولید شده توسط مصرف کنندگان این است که شهرستان ها و شهرها محدودیت سختی را در میزان زباله ای که از هر خانوار می پذیرند اعمال کنند.

پاسخی بنویسید که در آن درباره میزان موافق یا مخالف بودن خود با این ادعا بحث کنید. در توسعه و حمایت از موضع خود، اطمینان حاصل کنید که قانع کننده ترین دلایل و / یا نمونه هایی که می تواند برای به چالش کشیدن موقعیت شما استفاده شود را به کار می برید.

 

موافق

  • اگر محدود کردن میزان زباله ای که از خانوارها تحویل گرفته می شود، با آموزش و فرهنگ سازی برای خانواده ها همراه باشد و آنها بدانند که تولید زباله های کمتر چه تاثیری می‌تواند در کاهش مشکلات محیط زیست داشته باشد، این پیشنهاد می تواند موثر واقع شود.

مخالف

  • اگر خانواده ها فقط مقدار مشخصی از زباله ها را بتوانند برای دفع کردن تحویل بدهد، خانواده ها مجبور می‌شوند خودشان زباله های باقیمانده را که از آنها تحویل گرفتن نشده دفع کنند که می تواند مشکلات بیشتری را برای محیط زیست ایجاد کند چون افراد به روش‌های غیر استاندارد اقدام دفع زباله‌های اضافه می‌کنند.
  • مشخص کردن محدودیت برای تولید زباله توسط خانواده‌ها، نمی‌تواند مشکلات محیط زیست را حل کند و فقط می‌تواند تا حدودی پیشرفت این مشکلات را آهسته تر کند تا مسئولین بتوانند راه حلهای قاطعانه تری برای حل این مشکلات پیدا کنند.
  • محدود کردن میزان زباله های تولید شده توسط هر خانوار نمی تواند بهترین راه حل برای حل مشکلات محیط زیست باشد. مسئولین باید به فکر راه حل‌هایی مثل آموزش به خانوارها برای تفکیک زباله و یا بازیافت آن باشند. بهتر است خانواده ها تشویق شوند که زباله های کمتری که، غیر قابل بازیافت هستند، تولید کنند. در عوض آنها می توانند با تفکیک زباله و مشخص کردن زباله های قابل بازیافت، نقش موثری در حل کردن مشکلات محیط زیست داشته باشند.
  • بیشتر زباله هایی که به محیط زیست آسیب می‌رساند، توسط صنایع تولید می‌شود نه توسط خانواده‌ها. بنابراین مسئولین باید فکری برای کاهش زباله های تولید شده توسط صنایع کنند و آنها را تشویق کنند که دفع زباله ها را طبق استانداردهای مشخص شده انجام دهند.

 

Strategies
To get started, break down the statement and identify the assumptions made.
Statement Breakdown
a) Environmental problems caused by consumer–generated waste – The target of the claim
b) Limits on consumer waste production – The subject of the claim
c) Households – The factor in the claim that should be controlled

Assumptions:
a) Environmental problems are caused by consumer waste.
b) Households are the main source of consumer waste.
c) Limiting the amount of waste households can generate is an enforceable approach.
After breaking down the statement and identifying assumptions, come up with pros and cons (or statements for and against) the topic given. You do not need to pick a side yet but knowing potential counterarguments will help you to develop a stronger essay once you do.

Pros and Cons:
Pros
a) Limiting the amount of consumer waste is likely to contribute to reductions in environmental problems.
b) Households are typically populated by consumers who produce waste.
c) Limits on the production of other types of waste have been implemented before.
Cons
a) Imposing strict limits may not be feasible for households.
b) It is unclear whether limiting consumer–generated waste will solve environmental problems.
c) Trash that isn’t accepted may be disposed of in a way that causes further environmental problems.
Examples:
Include examples to make your essay as strong as possible. These are some potential routes you may take when choosing examples:
a) History contains many examples of arguments that support either side of this claim.
b) Past examples of local legislators curtailing waste disposal tend to support disagreements with this claim.
c) Legal cases are another area where there are many examples of arguments for both sides of this claim.
Finally, come up with an outline of your essay. This may feel like it slows you down, but your essay will benefit from having an underlying structure.

Sample 1:

Environmental problems caused by consumer–generated waste are a serious problem affecting both the United States and the globe. Many approaches to solving these environmental problems have been attempted with little success. The claim proposed here postulates that imposing limitations on the amount of consumer–generated waste that will be accepted from an individual household will not only help to solve environmental problems caused by consumer–generated waste but is the best method to solve said environmental problems. This claim is clearly false for two main reasons: first, it is unclear whether limiting the consumer–generated waste would actually solve the environmental problems (as opposed to halting the progress of the problems), and second, trash that is not accepted will likely be disposed of via alternative means, which will further environmental problems.

While consumer–generated waste is clearly linked to the propagation of environmental problems, past environmental research has shown that a reduction of the factors that cause environmental problems typically does not resolve these problems, only slows their progress. This can be seen in other policy measures such as the Paris Accords, a global agreement where almost all of the countries in the world agreed to reduce their carbon emissions in an attempt to slow the progress of climate change. There was no expectation that this agreement would solve the problem of climate change, instead, it was made in the hopes of giving researchers more time to discover other approaches to reversing the effects and progress of climate change. Given this, it is unlikely that limiting the amount of trash accepted per household will solve environmental problems. It is more likely that this approach will slow or halt the progress of these environmental problems, but active measures to counteract and resolve the environmental problems would have to be taken in order to fully solve the problems.

Historical regulations on waste disposal have shown that often when the amount of waste accepted by a certain entity decreased, this leftover waste was disposed of via non–standard methods that have severe environmental ramifications. Corporations that run factories which produce potentially harmful waste often dispose of the waste that is not accepted by traditional disposal organizations by releasing it into nearby bodies of water or local ecosystems. This causes severe negative consequences for these ecosystems that would not have otherwise happened without the implementation of this waste reduction policy.

While well–intentioned, the proposed policy would not be an effective approach to solving environmental problems caused by consumer–generated waste, as this policy would not solve the associated environmental problems at all. Instead, it may slow the progress of these environmental problems. Alternatively, the non–standard disposal of the trash not accepted by the disposal organization may be dumped in local ecosystems, speeding up the progress of the environmental problems that this policy was meant to protect. There may not be a “best” way to solve environmental problems caused by consumer–generated waste, but making the populace that would be affected by these problems aware of the potential consequences they will have on their day–to–day life if the problems continue may be a good start.


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