Today, the world faces with a number of problems of the environment that should be solved by the way of cooperation of the countries and the use of the new green technologies. China as one of the most valuable players of the world politics demonstrates a high level of increase of the economics and industries.
As the result, today, China has numerous ecological problems such as water and air pollution and greenhouse gases. Therefore, the problematic relationship between humans and the environment in China can be defined from the position of the water and air pollutions as the result of the industrial development of the country. The present issue had been studied carefully during the past century.
Today, the environmental problems need more strict solutions; besides, it is highly important to provide the immediate measures and to improve the existent laws.
In order to improve the problem of pollutions of the environment in China, analyzing the cultural background and impact of the economical situation on the environment, the government should develop such measures as the law which can convince companies to reduce the emissions and the domestic programs, including the bonuses which can motivate the industries to use more safe facilities.
As the problem of environmental pollution is strong, it is highly important to develop the measures that could reduce the level of emissions. The researchers indicate such measure and emphasize an importance of the use of the modern facilities and providing the new laws that can help to preserve the environment.
Besides, it is necessary to notice that the Chinese government should provide the domestic programs in order to reduce the emissions as well as cooperate with the international partners in order to develop the new common world solutions and to improve the present programs.
Thus, in 2007, the State Environmental Protection Administration planned to replace 200 factories with clean facilities and to address efforts to the environmental preservation (“The World’s Worst Polluted Places” 6). On the one hand, highly developed economic helps developing financial position of the country, however, on the other hand, this process causes the large negative effects on the environment that affect not only China, but the whole world.
However, the cultural and economical aspects lead to the disbalance between the government and business. Although the both sides take into consideration the current problems and try to provide the initiatives, in fact, the problem of the air and water pollutions is not solved yet and it is impossible to predict when the positive changes will happen.
Thesis statement. In order to improve the problem of pollutions of the environment in China, analyzing the cultural background and impact of the economical situation on the environment, the present research paper suggest such measures as the law which can convince companies to reduce the emissions and the domestic programs, including the bonuses which can motivate the industries to use more safe facilities.
The measures provided by the Chinese government help improving the process of preservation of the environment; however, it is necessary to develop more consistent and diligent solutions within the Chinese studies taking into consideration the economical, cultural and social characteristics of China.
The government should develop the law which can convince companies to reduce the emissions and the domestic programs, including the bonuses which can motivate the industries to use more safe facilities.
Background of present research paper is based on the works of different researchers that help to understand the problem of preservation of the environment. Thus, R. Bryce says about “energy independence” as the key moment of development of different countries. For instance, he provides an example of the United States that is “married to fossil fuels” (Bryce 305).
China as a country based on the use of the fossil fuels also can be considered as an example of energy independent economics. S. Carrell cites words of Al Gore who indicates that the reason of the environmental problems in China can be found in the overwhelming carbon emissions (“Al Gore: Clean proof that climate change causes extreme weather”).
According to the statistics of the Blacksmith Institute, China is one of the countries with the most polluted environment caused by the unregulated work of the industries (“The World’s Worst Polluted Places”, Lee and Wauchope). Air pollution leads to high risk of respiratory and skin diseases and cancer.
Thus, according to statistics of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning published in 2003, over “300,000 people die each year from ambient air pollution, mostly of hearth diseases and cancer” (Kahn and Yardley). The World Bank indicates that the total death range now is reached 750,000 people a year (Kahn and Yardley).
In the article As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes, the authors emphasize the lack of understanding of the environmental problems by the Chinese government.
Although every country in its history goes through this problem as the result of the economical and industrial growth, “but just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents” (Kahn and Yardley).
The authors say about the increase of a number of the health problems in country such as cancer, heart diseases, skin diseases and the different poisonings. Obviously, the level of diseases is directly dependent on the air and water pollutions. Moreover, the pollutions impact quality of the food products and this fact also leads to the health problems.
The authors analyze the work of the Communist Party in China and its capability to manage the current problems within the modern process and particularly its measures taken before the Olympic Games that took place in Beijing in 2008.
A number of companies had to close illegal coal mines and reduce the level of polluting gases. However, the problem of the air pollution was not solved and the numerous athletes and visitors of the Olympic Games mentioned that the air in Beijing was badly cleaned.
In the article Green Giant: Beijing’s crash program for clean energy, Osnos says about the green programs of the country developed in order to reduce the emissions and to increase the use of technologies that preserve the environment. However, the Chinese programs do not demonstrate the positive effects.
It would be incorrect to say about the otioseness of those measures, nevertheless, it is too early to announce about the positive change.
Osnos provides the information about the program called Goldwind Science and technology Company which is part of the 863 Program that “operates a plant and a laboratory in a cluster of high-tech companies in an outlying district of Beijing” (“Green Giant: Beijing’s crash program for clean energy”).
This program is created in order to develop so-called E-Town in the Chinese capital and to provide more effective protecting measures.
Taking into consideration methods of preservation suggested by T. Friedman, it is possible to develop the solutions of improvement of the current situation. One of the major steps is to make people “to be aware of the energy-climate problems” (Friedman 292).
Lemonick analyses the climate models and reflects about the workable solutions, for instance, the ways of reduction of CO2 emissions (287). Such ideas help understanding the measures that can be helpful regarding to the current situation in China.
Works Cited
Bryce, Robert. “Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 11/E. Ed. Laurence M. Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. US: Longman, 2011. Print.
Carrell, Severin. “Al Gore: Clean proof that climate change causes extreme weather.” Guardian, 2011. Web.
Friedman, Tomas L. “205 Easy Ways to Save the Earth.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 11/E. Ed. Laurence M. Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. US: Longman, 2011. Print.
Kahn, Joseph, and Jim Yardley. “As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes.” The New York Times, 2007. Web.
Lee, Cathy, and Samantha Wauchope. The Importance of Sacred Natural Sites for Biodiversity Conservation. France: UNESCO, 2003. Web.
Lemonick, Michael D.“Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point.” Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 11/E. Ed. Laurence M. Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. US: Longman, 2011. Print.
Osnos, Evan. “Green Giant: Beijing’s crash program for clean energy.” The New Yorker, 2009. Web.
The World’s Worst Polluted Places: The Top Ten (of The Dirty Thirty). NY: Blacksmith Institute, 2007. Web.