2018年1月13日托福考试真题托福独立写作高分范文推荐(3)

On the other hand, other people think that the cash spent on “giant leaps for mankind” would be better utilized on our planet. This concept is even more true in a time of collapsing economies and world-wide austerity measures. There is no denying the fact that we are threatened by imminent crises, and certainly we are facing serious issues here (and not in the outer space), and these dangers are getting worse as we simply watch them. High on the agenda are such compelling problems as the disappearance of the rainforest, the pollution of oceans, and the global warming that causes climate to change. Further, some of the criticism compares space exploration with the human basic needs on which the money could be spent, explaining that every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, from those who are ill and are not cured, and from those who are cold and are not clothed.
The final thoughts are that, independent of these both views, our space exploration will benefit humanity as a whole. It is one thing that more money should be used to help meet the human basic needs, and it is quite another thing to allow space exploration to continue in the future. Human curiosity being without limits, it seems that there is no turning back regarding space exploration. （458 words)