My Debate Script: THW Outlaw The Reclamation Of Coastal Wetland Areas For Development

"Development of our country, protection of the mother nature, which is more important?" This is a question people often ask themselves. Mostly, the second one is much more important but there are some exceptions. One of the exceptions is reclamation of wetlands.

A Picture of a Wetland from mercercountyohio.org

Hello, I'm Eujin Jo and I'm the Leader of the Opposition. Today's topic is that 'THW outlaw the reclamation of coastal wetland areas for development' and our team strongly disapprove the topic. Because, first, we can build more buildings and houses if we reclaim the wetlands. Second, there are so many economic benefits of wetland reclamation. Third, it is more beneficial to use the money for other causes. Today, as the Leader of the Opposition, I'll give the split, rebut the points of the Prime Minister, and state our team's first three arguments. And the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and our Whip will rebut the points of Deputy Prime Minister, state our team's last arguments and finish the debate.

Before I state our arguments, I'm going to rebut the points of the Prime Minister.

(impromptu speech)



The picture of Saemangeum, the reclaimed wetland.



From now on, I'd like to state our team's arguments. First of all, we can build more buildings and houses if we reclaim the wetlands. According to Wikipedia, about 50004441 people are living in Korea as of 2012. Korea is one of the most populated countries while its size is only 99720km2. It's too small, isn't it?. Thus, we need to use the land efficiently and effectively. If we reclaim the big wetlands, we can build more buildings, factories and houses. Our lives will be more convenient and less stressful. Reclamation of weltlands is one of the ways for contributing to welfare of Koreans.

Also, we can get so many economic benefits if we reclaim coastal wetlands. Once we reclaim the wetlands, the wetlands become more useful. Let's say that we make a port, a building and a factory in the reclaimed wetland. The port will make trade easier then before. The building and factory will make our country richier. Plus, they will provide jobs. Nowadays, 3.5% of Koreans are unemployed. They just stay at home or do antisocial behaviours. Now, it's time to give them jobs by reclaiming the wetlands.

Last but not least, we can use the money for other causes. Keeping the wetlands requires a lot of money. However, these days, we should concern about more serious environmental problems like global warming or water pollution. It's essential to invest more money to solve the problems. But the amount of money we can use for solving environmental problems is limited. Then what can we do? One of the actions we can take is developing wetlands so that we can use more money to solve the serious problems. Also, we can use a portion of money from the factories and companies built in the wetlands for protecting the mother nature.

 Of course, our team don't believe that coastal wetlands are not that valuable. But we should tackle more serious and important problems first. As the old saying goes, we should sacrifice something smaller to get something bigger. That's why our team strongly disagree with the topic.