Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with therecommendation and explain

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Governments should focus on solving the immediate problems of today rather than on trying to solve the anticipated problems of the future.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and
supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your
position.

The most immediate concerns of any Government naturally lies in relieving their citizens from the troubles they are burdened most with. In a developing nation this would include education, poverty alleviation, employment issues, regional or communal disputes, technological impediments, and so on. On the other hand, developed nations might be grappling with issues related to national security, economic crisis, immigration, etc. The future issues are usually common to both and that would include nuclear and biological warfare, global terrorism, economic stagnation, environmental catastrophes and extinction to name a few. At any rate, all these problems whether immediate or future, need to be solved by the respective governments with thorough deliberation and prescience. The debate on whether to focus on solving the present or future issues, though is a tricky one as both tasks appear to be interdependent and also, equally demanding.

To begin with, consider a government intending to develop the economy of a country, designs a strategy of mass industrialisation. For aquiring the land for the same, forests will be cleared, indigenous natural habitats would be encroached upon, rural and agricultural lands will be converted to barren fields, people would be displaced, and so on. No doubt, with the rise of industries and corporate sectors the economy will sky rocket and employment opportunities will alleviate the associated problems. Urban cities will develop, technological advancements will flourish and the once poor nation will be able to compete with its developed counterparts. However, these developments will come at a hefty price. The environment and the natural bounty of the country will be highly at stake for the developmental activities. Not only that, but with mass displacement of people from their natural lands or origins, will result in a cultural crisis. These people will try to adapt to the newer places they settle in, foregoing their indigenous cultures and traditions. The gradual dying of these native cultures will create a void in the nation’s overall culture. Besides, this nation contributes to global warming by way of their mass industrialisational activities and this will affect other parts of the world too. Thus by attempting to solve the most pressing issue, this government overlooks the future implications of its policies.

We can take the example of India and Indonesia. The reckless developmental activities in both these nations, have created an enormous pressure on their natural wilderness. The results have been excruciatingly large. Although both have had achieved an impressive level of economic exellence, yet they both have together contributed to about half of the world’s pollution. Both have witnessed a serious decline in the population of some of their rare animal and bird species. Hence the governmental policies and intentions to better the economies of these countries have endangered the natural balance. This not only affects their own countries but have implications in the overall climate change of the entire world. The future health and stability of their upcomming generations have been seriously compromised. Today Indonesia ranks second in deforestation and Indian cities of Agra and New Delhi ranks among the top 10 most pollutated places in the world. Hence despite their progress industrially and economically, their governments have failed to foresee the near future problems. Such a government policy is obviously not pragmatic and a development of such nature, is underisable. Hence, any step taken to solve an immediate issue has a direct and indirect future implication. Infact it can be said that it is only the immediate issues that pile up to become bigger issues in the future. Hence, governments must focus on solving the immediate issues, but in a manner that that it does not hamper the future.

In addition to the above, nuclear warfare or any type of warfare is a concern of almost all nations. But it is rarely seen as an immediate issue. But if the governments do not take steps in the present to avert any impending war, then little can be done to avoid it in the future. Building friendly relations with countries, making dialogues, sharing of mutual interests, promoting trade, exhange of culture, etc. can be viewed as present actions that can help the governments to eliminate chances of hostility and the subsequent wars. Hence these activities should be prioritized in the present and they should be seen as immediate concerns such that the future of the country is secured.

In a nutshell, although the governments should necessarily focus on the immediate problems of today, yet their policies need to be pragmatic such that the nation’s future is not compromised with. It is ussually the present problems that is unsolved or solved without deliberation, accumulates as future problems. The above examples illustrate how reckless policies to solve immediate concerns can bring about so much insecurity for the nation and to the world in general. In contrast, a well thought out plan to alleviate the present problems without endangering the future state of the country should be the agenda of the governments. In other words, the present policies should be such that there is no scope for future problems to arise. But that again is an ideal world. So, governments should strive to minimize the future confrontations by taking steps to alleviate the present problems through a discerning strategies.

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Discourse Markers used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.224173553719 0.240241500013 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.146694214876 0.157235817809 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.118801652893 0.0880659088768 135% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0402892561983 0.0497285424764 81% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0247933884298 0.0444667217837 56% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10847107438 0.12292977631 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0433884297521 0.0406280797675 107% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.00116602391 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0309917355372 0.030933414821 100% => OK
Particles: 0.00206611570248 0.0016655270985 124% => OK
Determiners: 0.120867768595 0.0997080785238 121% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0320247933884 0.0249443105267 128% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0051652892562 0.0148568991511 35% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 5537.0 2732.02544248 203% => OK
No of words: 873.0 452.878318584 193% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.34249713631 6.0361032391 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.43567598422 4.58838876751 118% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.420389461627 0.366273622748 115% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.317296678121 0.280924506359 113% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.23596792669 0.200843997647 117% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.162657502864 0.132149295362 123% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00116602391 2.79330140395 107% => OK
Unique words: 405.0 219.290929204 185% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463917525773 0.48968727796 95% => OK
Word variations: 63.0339664786 55.4138127331 114% => OK
How many sentences: 44.0 20.6194690265 213% => Less sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 19.8409090909 23.380412469 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4913422879 59.4972553346 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.840909091 141.124799967 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8409090909 23.380412469 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.454545454545 0.674092028746 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 51.5705769031 51.4728631049 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.7756097561 1.64882698954 108% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.517739329909 0.391690518653 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.103011403068 0.123202303941 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0798186697899 0.077325440228 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.468422451811 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.13629472245 0.149214159877 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185717404574 0.161403998019 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0925810853654 0.0892212321368 104% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.507918460329 0.385218514788 132% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.066136579935 0.0692045440612 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.39596159433 0.275328986314 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0465879450253 0.0653680567796 71% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.4325221239 144% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 21.0 5.30420353982 396% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 16.0 3.66592920354 436% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 33.0 13.5995575221 243% => OK

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Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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