Your city is experiencing water interruption from time to time, and to ease this crisis, the
government plans to enter into a contract with a foreign company for the construction of
Php 18.7-billion project called New Hope Dam. This dam will be located in one of the
ancestral domain of Dumagats near your city, also, that land has rich biodiversity and
because of this project, much of the ecosystem will potentially end up being endangered.
What will be your stand about this ecological crisis? Will you pursue the construction of
the dam to ease the water shortage in your city or will you respect the rights of the
indigenous people over their ancestral land and consider the ecosystem that will be
endangered? How will you reconcile development and taking care of the environment and
people living in it?
Follow this format in writing your position paper:
TITLE:
1.
II.
Introduction (Identify the issue that will be discussed and state your
position on that issue.)
Body (Write your central argument. It can be further broken up into three
unique sections:
a) Background information;
b) Evidence supporting your position; and
c) A discussion of both sides of the issue, which addresses
and refutes arguments that contradict your position
Conclusion (Restate the key points and, where applicable, suggesting
resolutions to the issue.)
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