But when E. I. duPont de Nemours and Co. proposed to build a titanium dioxide plant in the Changpin Industrial Park near Lukang in west-central Taiwan recently, it caused a furor among local residents and a commotion in the news media.
這類例子，小的像在花蓮蓋水泥廠、在立霧溪建水壩，大的如國家公園的重劃、核四廠興建等，都曾引起「要經濟成長？還是要生態環境？」之爭。