Journal: What do you think that It is better for government to spend their funds on the exploration of outer space than on earthly matters?

As scientific technology advances, it is an old story that human can only live on earth. Even though some people argue that the government needs to spend its funds to explore the outer space, I strongly believe that the government should use the money to solve urgent problems including earthly matters. This is because the government should recognize that lots of poor people are dying everyday due to the famine, and it is more pressing to restore the environment that has been damaged by man-made behaviors.

First of all, people who live countries that have sterile soil or wartime for so long time are dying due to an extreme shortage of staples. Even worse, the lack of food leads to sickness or death. For example, a number of children who live in Africa have suffered from hunger and poverty, but the government cannot afford to help them and asks for aid from other countries. Think about the exploration of outer space that requires lots of money to be spent. Spending money that should be set aside for the children who are dying everyday due to famine and hunger is cruel and impersonal, as man is the lord of creation. The government that spends lots of money to explore outer space seems like studying for their interest, not for entire people. In this sense, the government should recognize urgent problems and spend more money to save the poor.

On top of that, global warming is an enormous issue nowadays. People often watch the news about the fundamental causes such as forest fires and greenhouse gases that come from industrial pollution. The temperature of the atmosphere has been rapidly increasing every year since the emission of heat-trapping gases is out of control, and many scientists have warned that such problems will increase. To prevent it from getting worse, restoring the damaged environment is keenly demanded. This is mainly due to the fact that clean air and water are indispensable for people as well as animals and plants. Despite of these problems that must be solved without delay, many countries are competing to explore outer space for their benefits while they ascribe the causes of global warming to other’s fault. In this respect, the government should spend their funds to restore environment first.

To sum up, I wholeheartedly believe that the government should focus on spending their funds to solve earthly matters first because there are many people who cannot get food and water due to shortage of staples in the world. Also, serious and urgent problems such as global warming have a vast influence on people and have to be solved step by step. After the environmental crisis is solved, we can use our resources to explore outer space.