Developing and Developed Countries

With the development of economics, a vast number of people improve their living standards and they gradually take care of the environment. Nowadays, sparking heated debate about the economic growth impact of environmental degradation never ceased. Some people claim that the economic growth leads to the environmental degradation. The others assert that growth of economics contribute to improve the damage of the environment. This essay will outline the argument on both sides about the economic and environment.

To start with, the increasing scale of economic activity will have a negative environment effect. Copeland and Taylor (2007) claim that scale effect which increases the ratio of economic activity by 1 percent and rises of pollution by 0.25 to 0.5 percent in a liberalistic trade (Copeland and Taylor, 2007). Therefore, when the economy of some developing and poor countries grows, the pollution of these countries also jumps.

In addition, third countries should have more heavy industries instead of less which also is a way for them s to leap over the phases of development. According to Palmer (2011) most manufacturing jobs and heavy industries move to the developing countries from the developed countries. For instance, mining, iron and steel industries, the product of consumer manufacturing, mechanical manufacture and so on (Palmer, 2011). This measure cleans the environment of rich countries, but it seriously degrades the environment of developing countries and terrible harm to the health of people. Besides, Wang (2006) argues that the product which manufactured in the developing countries from developed countries that mostly focuses on the consumer manufacturing in the past 20 years. At present, about 80 to 90 percent of consumer products in developed countries are made in China (Wang, 2006). This actually represents many products manufactured and has a great deal of contamination on these developing countries.