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79. With modern transportation, workers and students are increasingly mobile, and have more and more opportunities to   study and work abroad. 

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this development.  

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                                    There is no doubting the fact that the need for transportation to travel from one place to another, whether it is private or public transport, is paramount in individuals' lives. However, the problem of using transportation such as airplanes, cars, and buses creates a huge amount of pollution, but these means are faster and cheaper. While there are strong views for and against it, I believe that its advantages are more than its disadvantages.

                                 Indeed, traveling by modern means of transportation has several pros. The major one is that it is time-saving, resulting in benefits for travellers. Passengers can travel easily to any part of the world due to modern means. For example, if we have to visit Mumbai from New Delhi Airport, an aircraft may not take more than five hours to reach there. Added to this, using modern transportation helps workers and students to work and study abroad, because, due to the advancements in technology, these means have become cheaper and faster, students and workers can easily go to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and many others for their studies and job opportunities.

                          Despite having many upsides, it has many downsides, too. The first one is that modern transportation is environmentally unhealthy, as an increasing number of vehicles on the road and airplanes produce a huge amount of smoke, hydrogen and helium, causing depletion of the ozone layer. It has an adverse effect on the environment also. Secondly, this kind of transportation is quite expensive, and it takes away a significant number of academicians and cheap labour from our country to other countries, causing a negative effect on our economic development.

                         In conclusion, it seems to me that its advantages outweigh the disadvantages because using modern transportation provides our students and workers with a platform for different opportunities around the world.

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