God**** Geography

This is my journal for the Geog proj

The above problems, being problems in Singapore, would not actually be common problems with ELDCs. However, out of the three problems, I think that urban sprawl would be a great problem in many ELDCs, as in the 21st century, many ELDCs want to catch up with EMDCs in terms of economic growth. One of the only ways that they are able to achieve that would be to build many factories, and thus giving rise to air pollution through smoke stacks. This, in turn would cause a serious problem of urban sprawl, as factories increase rapidly at the cost of once lush land that could have been used for agriculture. When the factories have been built though, not many will protest at the loss of farming land as they will get new jobs provided by the factories, which becomes the main providence of income for the country. By then, the people of these ELDCs will only be concerned about the cash rolling into their pockets and not the environment. It would be hard to change the mindsets of these people. Public infrastructure would also be a problem, as the governments of most countries are unable to plan their cities, well, mostly due to the fact that many other countries are much larger than Singapore, and therefore are unable to put in place the proper road or housing developments. This would result in severe overcrowding of streets in some areas and near-emptiness in others. The problems I have mentioned would be due to bad governance, as in the case of urban sprawl, it is probably the government who were the first to suggest the building of the factories and then the smokestacks. It would also be the government who has put up propaganda to spread the advantages about the factories and hiding many disadvantages from the citizens. Those among the civilians who complain would probably be shut up by the overwhelming majority who objects their views, because of the government. The second issue would be all the more a problem caused by bad governance. In the case of a larger country than Singapore, especially an ELDC, where there is very little money and planning devoted to building proper roads and buildings, and therefore, when the civilians have to resort to erect their own housing and dirt roads, it results in the overuse of dirt roads and underuse of the roads built by the government, usually because the proper asphalt roads are virtually inaccessible to the civilians’ houses that they have built themselves. All the abovementioned problems are currently being experienced by Singapore, who is probably hardest hit nowadays by the first one, as food prices, along with almost everything else, are going through a period of serious inflation as the world’s oil sources deplete slowly but surely, due to the ever-increasing demand for more energy by the world. In the near future, as our population increases, unfortunately, we will probably face a daunting task in overcoming these problems. As we know, more people would need more food and water, more jobs and would probably use more cars and take up more space, exacerbating all three problems of self sustainability, urban sprawl and even public infrastructure. Singapore’s once near-perfect planning might not stand the test of time…

Crap I only have like 540+ words i need 60 more words man...why must the word limit be so long... I blame Ms Chen...