Class Supplement, TOEFL Essay, A new factory in your community -rewritten-)

Imagine that a company has announced plans to build a large factory in your community. Would you support this addition to your community?

☆Notes:
“a large factory”… It has advantages and disadvantages.
“in your community” … You can consider distinct conditions in your community.

So you can start with discussing merits and demerits of building a factory in general, and then add some conditions of your community to conclude.

☆Hints for Points
♦merits and demerits of building a factory in general
advantages: It will stimulate the local economy. / The employment will improve. / The municipal government will benefit from the tax revenue increase.
disadvantages: air/water/noise pollution / Transportation will be crowded. / There might be conflicts between old and new residents

♦conditions of your community
old residential area → The health of senior citizens might be adversely affected.
already full of factories → more demerits than merits

☆Counter-argument: When you think of a counter-argument, take it up, and deal with it by, for example, proving the counter argument does not make a case.
e.g.
♦The employment will improve.
⇔ Corporations employ dispatched workers, who are already trained to do the same kind of tasks and do not cost much.
⇔ The community leaders can organize themselves to make sure that the factory will give priority to hiring residents in the area before the construction starts.
♦effect on the environment (pollution, CO2 emissions, habitat loss, etc.)
⇔ New technology will reduce the impact on the environment.
⇔ A corporation owes responsibility not to the environment or the community but to the shareholders. It won’t seriously take measures to protect the environment.