China's Serious Pollution Problem

[chenyu]

Are you going to China? Then I will tell you pollution in China is very serious. The Chinese environmental protection consciousness is very low. The Chinese industry economy increases quickly; pollution grows more serious more; and the great majority of Chinese are insensitive to the pollution. This is a Chinese, as well as, global disaster in the making. I request you help China.

 

Car and motorcycle traffic is increasing greatly. The population in China is multitudinous"1300000000".is five times as 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, new highway construction will take up large areas of land. Traffic accidents increased greatly. In 2003 200,000 people died in traffic accidents in China.

 

Building development is in mass confusion. Building technique is primitive and building in consuming large amounts of materials. In 2003 China poured 44% of the world's cement. Building a house will consume more amounts of cement brick and decorative colorful brick in China than The Western Nation. 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 concerns 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 cost of the environment around their house.

 

Garbage removal is primitive.chinese don't know Garbage classification.waste plastic bags is visible everywhere. The Chinese people like to use plastic bags and batteries just once and then throw them away.china government pay great attention to beauty of city.they afford large money in images structure of city.but they pay little attention to garbage classification.large amounts of garbage is 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 sanitation practices.the most river in china is unsuitable for drinking.many china people is harmed by drinking water in polluted river.

 

Education in protecting environment is blank. People's understanding and concept of protecting the environment is quite low. China's people are poor, but they are not frugal.Chinese are concerned the beauty of house but don't concerned the beauty of 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 is threatening their health greatly.

 

China is imitating the West's high pattern of consumerism. Chinese hope per a people owning private car and Motorcycle,living big and big house. Consuming large power source as Western nations do. The Chinese government is making effort to realize this aim. China is producing large cars and motorcycles, large cement and brick.Exploiting large coal mines and oil field, large ore mines. Building large multi-story buildings and huge highway construction patterns. Enlarging blindly more and more area of cities and towns land. Large areas of land are damaged by the exploitation of natural resources.

 

The population in China is multitudinous, 1.3 billion(perhaps 1.4or1.5 billion)people, 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. Should 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.

 

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name:chenyu.

ADDRESS:people hospital.huangchuan County.henan Province.china. telephone:008613598583618

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I like green.like science.like internet. I adore a life which is simple but rich in spirit..oppose high consumption.

[Tormod]

Hi and welcome to Hypography!

 

Thank your your post. Interesting stuff. It sounds like you have a serious problem there.

 

But...I would advise against posting your e-mail address and phone numbers, as there are lots of people who scour website and pick up info like that. If you want people to be able to e-mail you, go into your User CP and under "Options", check the "Receive e-mail from users" field.

 

Tormod

[infamous]

Sounds like the American dream Tormod, but really, sometime somehow, we are going to have to face this problem. We spend a lot time and energy concerning ourselves with our place on the world stage, forgetting that somday this featue may float away in a flood of sewage. Seariously, we better get real about our priorities. Global dosen't mean on some other planet, somewhere out there, it's here, it' now.

[Queso]

this is a very interesting perspective thread. bump!

[Boerseun]

Good topic...

 

I suppose the greatest danger is not the fact that China is trying to emulate the West in terms of lifestyle, thereby creating pollution on an unprecedented scale, but the fact that their political machinery doesn't allow for private monitoring of the environment. The government will just tell the people that there is no pollution problem, and the people will have to accept the government's opinion as fact.

 

There is no democracy allowing for private opinions and pressure groups. The rest of the world will have to tell the Chinese populace that there's a problem, because their government sure as heck won't do it, thereby impeding on their growth projections.

 

It's understandable that China will pollute on the short term as it progresses through an industrial phase to a modern post-industrial country, but they shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel as far as pollution goes. They can simply knock on the doors of Western countries to learn from their mistakes. If they want to emulate the US in terms of lifestyle, and their population is six times bigger, it stands to reason that they'll produce six times as much pollution.

 

Politics is the problem here, I guess.

[Docalex007]

I'll be heading to China (most likely Yantai) in early February. I want to gain some insight into China's tropospheric ozone (smog) problem. I'll maybe get some aerosol concentration estimates for around that area while i'm there as well.

 

I find it interesting that some police officer ordered protesters to be shot the other day. Look at the recent political protest marches in Honk Kong urging for a faster process towards Democracy. Major reform is inevitable and will kick China in some crazy political state. These average Chinese in villages and small towns are starting to wake up and when they are in full force, watch out.

 

China is huge! What they do to their land and ecosystem is definitely a Global issue and should concern us greatly.

 

My wish for 2006:

- US joins Kyoto (regardless of economy, we are so selfish, always wanting more and more money; a cleaner Earth is more appealing.)

- China toughens its environmental stance

- Australia joins Kyoto

- I greatly improve my serve and backhand :cup: