Economic Growth Will Always Be More Important Than Environmental Protection

I think that economic growth is just as important as environmental protection. Now, many people were jobless and even homeless, if we boost the economy by providing more schemes to the people that will benefit them, they could survive the financial crisis. The government should also spend more money into bailouting companies and saving the economy. We should not think that economic growth is more important than environmental protection. For example, Singapore is constructing the Integrated Resort (IR) at Sentosa now and should be open in 2012, some may think that reclaiming land to build the IR will cost a lot of money and will harm the environment. But that's not true, when the IR is done, it will attract a lot of tourists to come to Singapore and this will boost the economy, it will also create many jobs for the people and they will have salary to pay their water and electricity bills. The goverment will also earn money from the IR and it will be far more than the cost, with the money, we could build more flats for the poor to provide them with a place to live in. The construting of IR will not harm our environment, as we could use the money earned to build more solar panels, a wind farm, a hydroelectricity dam, more sea-water disalination plant and build the country's first Ecopark to turn Singapore into the first Ecopolis. Also, reclaimation of land will not destroy marine life as we could use huge steel poles as foundation and use coral reefs and huge rocks so as not to hurt marine life. So, now we know that economic growth is just as important as environmental protection.