Alternative explanations for an Industrial Ecology puzzle

Question: Choose your own industrial ecology-inspired puzzle and think up three alternative explanations for it.


The industrial ecology-inspired puzzle I have chosen is: even though they know the importance of environmental issues, why developing countries still choose to develop economy first and then to solve environmental problems?

firstly, in my opinion，it's the influence of those developed countries. during the development of those developed countries, almost all of them chose to develop their industrial level first. as a consequnse of emitting large amount of waste, there were lots of pollution affairs during their development, such as London smog incidents.these examples of developed countries make those developing countries believe that the environmental issuses can be solved after their economy increased.

secondly,the development of economy is conducive of protecting environment.development is the constant theme of mankind. and environmental protection is an issue of this stage.however development can not wait, we see the problem and then solve it.beacause of the lack of ability, a certain degree of damage to the environment is inevitable, during the early period of rapid development.in the past,people in China could not produce electicity without smokestakes. but now, we can build hydropower stations and nuclear power plants.
without the development of economy, environmental protection is just like Palliatives. in China, we insist scientific outlook on development.and the development is the core part of it.

thirdly,the Kuznets Curve. the curve can also be used in the relationship between
the GDP and pollution degree of environment.that is to say, before the economy develop to a certain degree，the environmental  degradation is normal.Only after the economy has developed to a certain degree, the environmental issues could be easily solved.

the business of business is to increase it's profits

what's the business of business? is it realizing self-fulfilment? is it realizing social value？or people just take a delight in making friends in their business? 

before i express my vision,i want to ask a question, what is your original intent of starting a business?

I think the majority of people may have the same answer—to make money.In other words，the business of their business is to increase it's profit. maybe some people live in a rich life, starting a business is just to prove their own ability. however,  what is the strongest confirmation? i believe increasing their business's profits must be the answer.

there is also a sense of social responsibility in business. the bigger the scale of your business is，the more expectation it undertakes. the expectation is from both employees and society.he bigger the scale of your business is，the more employees are emploied. the more employess are emploied, the more families are fed. without increasing profits, how to meet these expectations？

without a certain economic base, how to achieve deeper ideals? without money, how to survive in the society？ if you can not survive, how can you live a better life?

above all, i believe that the business of business is to increase it's profits.