Some people say it is more important to plant trees in the open spaces in towns and cities than to build more housing. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Some think the current generation should take steps to protect the environment for the next generation. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Environmental issues have never been about contemporary people only, which also would make significant impacts on our next generation. Some people argue that our responsibility is just to protect the present inhabit, and I definitely disagree with this view. In my opinion, environment conservation is not only about ourselves, but the future of this beautiful planet and our offspring.
People who argue against this view think that the current generation is not the main contributor to climate change and environmental pollutions. The industrial revolution resulted in the severely polluted circumstance from their perspective and surging populations and advances in medicine have also contributed to the over-production and mass consumption. It is objectively unfair that people today, and primarily the younger generation only now entering the workforce, should have to suffer for industrialisation.
However, it is the responsibility of the present generation to take heed of these potentially dire warnings. People in the past were either intentionally or unintentionally unaware of the repercussions of their actions but individuals today cannot make such excuses. For example, the rapidly deteriorating polar ice caps are directly impacting the natural habitats of animals around the world and some climate scientists believe that an uptick in natural disasters is also related to this and other man-made changes to the ecosystem. Moreover, past generations who set the world on this path can not come back and remedy their mistakes and future generations will resent the current one if steps are not taken towards drastic reforms.
In conclusion, though people today bear little responsibility for climate change, they must commit to reversing its effects. Leaving this problem for children of the future will put them in a potentially unwinnable situation.
Environmental issues have never been about contemporary people only, which also would make significant impacts on our next generation. Some people argue that our responsibility is just to protect the present inhabit, and I definitely disagree with this view. In my opinion, environment conservation is not only about ourselves, but the future of this beautiful planet and our offspring.
People who argue against this view think that the current generation is not the main contributor to climate change and environmental pollutions. The industrial revolution resulted in the severely polluted circumstance from their perspective and surging populations and advances in medicine have also contributed to the over-production and mass consumption. It is objectively unfair that people today, and primarily the younger generation only now entering the workforce, should have to suffer for industrialisation.
However, it is the responsibility of the present generation to take heed of these potentially dire warnings. People in the past were either intentionally or unintentionally unaware of the repercussions of their actions but individuals today cannot make such excuses. For example, the rapidly deteriorating polar ice caps are directly impacting the natural habitats of animals around the world and some climate scientists believe that an uptick in natural disasters is also related to this and other man-made changes to the ecosystem. Moreover, past generations who set the world on this path can not come back and remedy their mistakes and future generations will resent the current one if steps are not taken towards drastic reforms.
In conclusion, though people today bear little responsibility for climate change, they must commit to reversing its effects. Leaving this problem for children of the future will put them in a potentially unwinnable situation.