Thread: China's environmental issue

The economic progress made in China comes at the expense of the pollution of environment. The industry economy grows quickly; but pollution becomes more serious. Unfortunately, the great majority of people here are insensitive to the pollution.

China is imitating the West's high pattern of consumerism. Chinese people hope to own private car, motorcycle, and big house. China is consuming large power source as western nations. The Chinese government is making effort to realize this aim. China is producing a large amount of cars and motorcycles, cement and brick, exploiting many coal mines, ore mines and oil field, And building large multi-story buildings and highway, enlarging blindly more and more land area of cities and towns. Large area of lands are damaged by the exploitation of natural resources.

Car and motorcycle are increasing greatly. The population in China is multitudinous "1500000000", which is five times of the population of the US. China is short of cultivated land. In spite of this case,the Chinese government is developing the private car industry greatly. The construction of new highway will take up large areas of land. Traffic accidents increase greatly. In 2003 200,000 people died in traffic accidents in China.

Building development is in confusion. Building technique is primitive and large amounts of materials are consumed. In 2003 China poured 44% of the world's cement. Building a house will consume more cement brick and decorative colorful brick in China than the western nations. But these houses make little use of insulation letting heat flow out in the winter and letting the heat in during the hot summer months. House repairs are more difficult, too. Chinese concern beauty of own house very much, but chinese don't concern about environment round the house. They spend large money on their own house,but they are stingy in spending money on the environment around their house.

Garbage removal is primitive. Chinese don't know the classification of garbage. Waste plastic bags are visible everywhere. The Chinese people like to use plastic bags and batteries just once and then throw them away. Governments pay great attention to beauty of city., spending much money on the apperance of city. But they pay little attention to garbage classification. Large amounts of garbage are made by large consumption.

River is polluted by chemical fertilizer,pesticide,herbicides,chemical synthetic detergent(washing powders),industry waste water,human excrement and urine,garbage. Waste water, excrement and urine flow directly into river without any treatment. Most of rivers in china are unsuitable for drinking. Many chinese people are harmed by drinking water in polluted river.

Education in protecting environment is blank. People are lack of understanding and concept of protecting the environment. Chinese people are poor, but they are not frugal. Chinese are concerned about the beauty of house but don't concerned about the beauty of the environment. Chinese are concerned about their own health but don't care about environmental health. They like to inject and swallow more medicines,eat more wild animals, but they don't realize that the polluted food, water and air are threatening their health greatly.

The population in China is multitudinous, 1.5 billion(perhaps 1.6 billion)people, over five times the population of the US. China is short of cultivated land.The actual situation demands that China doesn't imitate the west's high consumption. China should develop electronic information consumption,develop economizing energy industries. If not, the Chinese would ruin their own environment,in further more, affect the global environment.

The Chinese don't realize that pollution is their most dangerous enemy.
name:chenyu.

My hot post:Chinadaily BBS - China Watch - China's Serious Environment Problem,

???_????