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roadside_cafe
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Kindly rate the following essay. I'm quite worried about AWA, actually afraid of messing it up big time. GMAT is on 14th Aug. I can allocate an hour everyday. Please highlight improvement areas and if possible please also advice on the strategy that i should adopt.
Thanks in advance..
Here goes:
“It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
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The issue says that it is unrealistic to expect countries to make sacrifices in isolation, while trying to conserve energy. Further, it says that International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we are to conserve energy resources for future generations. I agree with the stated view. In the rest of the essay I’ll elucidate my views.
The primary reason for my views is that in today’s highly globalised and capitalistic world of cut-throat competition, nobody, be it an individual, a society or a country, will ever make sacrifices on a standalone basis, even if the sacrifices in question are imperative to the extent that if not made they stand to threaten our very existence. Energy conservation initiatives entail a lot of measures that almost invariably hamper a nation’s rate of progress, such as, cutting back on supply of non-renewable energy resources to various industries, increasing duties on products that consume non-renewable energy resources (automobiles for example), pushing for comparatively costlier alternatives of producing energy from renewable sources, etc. So it is quite obvious no nation would like to be the lone scapegoat even if for a noble cause. Consider, for example, China and India, the fastest growing economies of the world. Their thirst for energy resources is growing continuously. If one of them is asked to slow down without the other following suit, it is quite obvious that it will not.
In this scenario where individual sacrifices don’t seem possible, the only way to take effective initiatives towards conserving energy is to make sure that a collective effort is made by all the nations across the globe. As the argument says, international leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations. Both, developing and developed countries should try to develop a set of regulation towards the aim and apply the same to similar extent. The UN can play an important role in this.
Some people might argue that some countries have a greater responsibility towards energy conservation as compared to others because these countries are bigger consumers of non-renewable energy resources, these countries cause more pollution, etc. and hence it is their responsibility to conserve energy. But then that doesn’t mean that without international co-operation and consensus these countries will take required initiatives.
In sum, I agree with the argument that it is not a good idea to expect individual sacrifices from nations. International cooperation & world leadership is what is required to ensure effective energy conservation.
Thanks in advance..
Here goes:
“It is unrealistic to expect individual nations to make, independently, the sacrifices necessary to conserve energy. International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
===============================================
The issue says that it is unrealistic to expect countries to make sacrifices in isolation, while trying to conserve energy. Further, it says that International leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we are to conserve energy resources for future generations. I agree with the stated view. In the rest of the essay I’ll elucidate my views.
The primary reason for my views is that in today’s highly globalised and capitalistic world of cut-throat competition, nobody, be it an individual, a society or a country, will ever make sacrifices on a standalone basis, even if the sacrifices in question are imperative to the extent that if not made they stand to threaten our very existence. Energy conservation initiatives entail a lot of measures that almost invariably hamper a nation’s rate of progress, such as, cutting back on supply of non-renewable energy resources to various industries, increasing duties on products that consume non-renewable energy resources (automobiles for example), pushing for comparatively costlier alternatives of producing energy from renewable sources, etc. So it is quite obvious no nation would like to be the lone scapegoat even if for a noble cause. Consider, for example, China and India, the fastest growing economies of the world. Their thirst for energy resources is growing continuously. If one of them is asked to slow down without the other following suit, it is quite obvious that it will not.
In this scenario where individual sacrifices don’t seem possible, the only way to take effective initiatives towards conserving energy is to make sure that a collective effort is made by all the nations across the globe. As the argument says, international leadership and worldwide cooperation are essential if we expect to protect the world’s energy resources for future generations. Both, developing and developed countries should try to develop a set of regulation towards the aim and apply the same to similar extent. The UN can play an important role in this.
Some people might argue that some countries have a greater responsibility towards energy conservation as compared to others because these countries are bigger consumers of non-renewable energy resources, these countries cause more pollution, etc. and hence it is their responsibility to conserve energy. But then that doesn’t mean that without international co-operation and consensus these countries will take required initiatives.
In sum, I agree with the argument that it is not a good idea to expect individual sacrifices from nations. International cooperation & world leadership is what is required to ensure effective energy conservation.
