Funding_Environmental_Protection

Funding Environmental Protection Funding of environmental protection projects has always been a controversial subject. The process of calculating exactly how much money and resources should be given to a project is very complex due to the uncertainy of the end results. However, if we neglect the protection of our environment the damage in the future may be irreversable, and the environmental and economic outcomes devastating. The most important reason that we invest money into environmental protection is to ensure the security and preservation of our natural resources. We must be able to constantly replace the amount of resources we use up and ensure the proper amount be available for future generations to use. This is known as a sustainable economy and is described in Environmental Economics as an economy “in which investment in social capital allows the economy to grow so that people are at least as well off in the future as they are in the present, while sustaining the health of ecological systems.”pg11. Sustainable development is a very prudent course of action to take, yet some still do not completely support the idea. The government document SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: CONDITIONS, PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES states that the reason for this is the “concepts environmental, protection, projects, results, future, been, project, environment, species, resources, protect, one, money, worth, whether, way, support, should, proven, pesticides, people, issues, importance, groups, ensure, emissions, ecosystem, economy, economics, due, depleted, because, air, while