Question

in three to five sentences explain why it is difficult to balance economic issues with environmental ones

Answer 1

Can't use answers from the lesson because... well.. I don't have the lesson.

But here's what I do know:

As Kenneth Boulding once said:

"Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist."

This basically means that you can't have infinite economic growth in a finite environment, such as the earth.

This is also the argument for the switch to sustainable/renewable energy, which might be an example you could use. Sustainable energy is just that - energy that we can sustain for a theoretically infinite period of time. However, fossil fuels and oil are not sustainable because there is a finite amount of them on earth. We will run out.

Answer 2

Not everyone agrees on the solutions to environmental problems.

Environmental regulation may hurt businesses.

Environmental regulation may hurt property owners.

The government must protect people’s rights to make a living.