First of all, water resources. China's total water resources of 2.8 trillion cubic meters or so, ranking sixth in the world, per capita water accounted for more than 2,100 cubic meters, accounting for only a quarter of the world's per capita level, belonging to the country of water shortages, the country's more than 600 cities in more than 400 water shortages. Especially in the western region of the water shortage is very serious, some mountainous places and even people, livestock drinking water are very difficult.
China's water is facing serious problems, so we have to cherish water resources, water conservation. For example: after using the water, to tighten the tap, so as not to cause "a river of water to the east" of the phenomenon of waste, if you find that the faucet is broken, to repair in time, to avoid the loss of a large amount of water, we should not underestimate the discarded batteries, because a button battery will contaminate the 600 tons of water, if you throw it to the water, the water will be undrinkable. We should collect the batteries and send them to the recycling station, so that we can avoid polluting the water and make the batteries recycled, killing two birds with one stone. We can't just pay lip service to it, we have to take action!
Not only to save water, but also to save forest resources. The total amount of forest resources in our country is insufficient, the forest coverage rate is only 18.21%, equivalent to the world average forest coverage rate of 61.52%; the national per capita forest area and per capita forest reserves were less than a quarter of the world per capita level and one-sixth. The quality of forests is not high, with an average storage capacity of only 84.73 cubic meters per hectare, equivalent to 84.86% of the world average.
This is the alarm that forest resources have sent to us! We have to save the use of forest resources, first of all, can not throw paper, nor take the unwritten paper folding aircraft and other small crafts, not to cut down indiscriminately, trampling on plants and trees, to plant trees, flowers and trees; not to use disposable things, such as paper cups, wood blocks and so on. At school, we should set up a "green bank" and pick up paper scraps and handkerchiefs that we have discarded before. When we eat out, we should bring our own spoons and chopsticks. Students, let's act together to save and utilize our limited forest resources.
We can't live without electricity everywhere. Electricity brings us all kinds of convenience, but we have to save electricity, because electricity is almost produced by burning standard coal, and the coal stored in our country is only enough to mine for 100 years! Think about it, what will our children and grandchildren do after 100 years? Therefore, we have to conserve electricity. First of all, from the self to start, I keep in mind that "people come to the lights on, people go out of the lights", the summer season, open the air conditioning, do not set the temperature too low, suitable for on it. The usual lighting, as far as possible with energy-saving lamps, because the ordinary light bulbs to a large amount of electrical energy into heat, only a small number of light, and energy-saving lamps to electrical energy almost into the light.
"Cherish resources, advocate saving" is the obligation of each of our citizens. For the sake of our better tomorrow, please act quickly!
"Looking forward, looking forward, the east wind came, the footsteps of spring is near ......"
It is Mother Earth, bring us one after another beautiful spring.April 22, when the 37th April 22, when the 37th "World Earth Day" stepped in the spring dance to our side, we can not help but think: how we should be good to Mother Earth, how to cherish Mother Earth to give us the miles of spring.
Treating the earth well - cherishing resources and sustainable development - is the main theme of this spring.
But the current situation in our country, whether it is land resources or mineral resources, its protection, utilization and sustainable use of the situation, are not optimistic. We have to ask: the earth's spring, is it forever?
Despite our implementation of the world's most stringent land management system, but in some places, the indiscriminate occupation of agricultural land and basic farmland, but also happen from time to time; our large and small cities, paved with reinforced concrete "cake", is still expanding in all directions, devouring the surrounding hectares!
Although the supply of mineral resources has become a bottleneck in the rapid development of economic constraints, but in some places, to waste and destroy resources as a symbol of the unlicensed small mines, is still in the non-stop indiscriminate mining; even in the big mines, "eat half and throw half of the" sloppy mining methods Even in large mines, "eat half and throw away half" of the rough way of mining is also continuing; indiscriminate piling of tailings, not only so that the mineral resources could have been utilized miserably discarded, but also in the rainy season may be formed mudslides, into the destruction of fields, crops and people's lives and property killers; mine mining area of ground subsidence and cracks, not only make the farmers lose their livelihoods of the land resources, but also threaten the safety of their residence; We are the world's most water-scarce country, but water for production and living is still being squandered at will, and precious groundwater is being over-exploited or polluted; our energy is already in short supply, but the crude heating of newly built housing stock is still wasting oil and coal resources. ......
Today, we are facing an overall tightening of supply and demand for land and mineral resources, but we are still facing an overall tightening of supply and demand for land. supply and demand of land and mineral resources, we must change the status quo of rough utilization of land resources, inefficiency and serious waste. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the saving and intensive utilization of land resources, requiring us to have a high sense of historical responsibility, a strong sense of worry and a broad vision of the world, accurately grasp the staged characteristics of China's development, base on scientific development, focus on independent innovation, accelerate the transformation of the mode of economic growth, take resource conservation as a basic national policy, develop a circular economy, and Protect the ecological environment, accelerate the construction of a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, and promote economic development in harmony with population, resources and the environment.
In order to build a conservation-oriented society, during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the state set several binding hard targets that must be met: maintaining arable land reserves of 120 million hectares, reducing energy consumption per unit of GDP by about 20%, reducing water consumption per unit of industrial added value by 30%, increasing the effective utilization coefficient of water for irrigation to 0.5, increasing the effective utilization coefficient of water for industrial solids to 0.5, and increasing the effective utilization coefficient of water for irrigation to 0.5. The effective utilization coefficient of agricultural irrigation water has been increased to 0.5, and the comprehensive utilization rate of industrial solid waste has been increased to 60% (expected). Now, governments and enterprises at all levels are working hard to realize these goals, and every one of us citizens should work hard to realize these goals. Resource shortages and energy crises are all around us, "electricity shortage", "oil shortage", "coal shortage", "water shortage "and so on, are all the time in trouble with us. Cherishing resources depends on you and me. Only the whole society *** with the efforts, in order to enable us to get rid of the rapid development of the resource dilemma, towards resource-saving, environmentally friendly society.
Cherish resources, protect resources, save resources, everyone has the responsibility. Let us start from now, from me, from the little by little to do, cherish all the natural resources given to us by Mother Earth, so that our homes year after year spring ......
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Why should we conserve today?
I don't know when we got used to the bright lights in our offices in the middle of the day, the air-conditioning in our living rooms that is turned on all the time, the long running water when we wash the dishes, the sheets of waste paper next to the photocopying machine ...... and the big spendthrifts and whims behind all of these conveniences and comforts.
So, when the State Council put forward in 2004 to 2006 in the nationwide campaign to carry out resource conservation activities, when the diaphragm has been a long time, "saving" the word constantly repeated in our ears, some people feel "uncomfortable".
Some people say, saving is the product of the natural economy era of low productivity, in the material rich market economy conditions to mention saving is not anachronistic? Some people say that consumption is the traction machine of production, is the indispensable wheels of the modernization train, advocating the transition to a conservation-oriented society is old-fashioned and outdated?
Today, why do we still need to save?
Unrestrained waste of resources to shake the foundation of survival
Conservation and waste is relative, today we re-talked about saving, because the waste that happens around us is shaking the foundation of our survival.
We are one of the world's most water-scarce countries, per capita water resources less than 1/4 of the average, more than 600 cities have more than 400 water supply shortage, but we cherish the water?
Agriculture is a big water user of water resources, but also a big waste of water resources. In our country, "earth canal water transfer, water irrigation" agricultural irrigation methods are still commonly used, half of the irrigation water in the water transfer process on the leakage, the utilization rate of only about 40%, less than half of the level of developed countries.
Because of the backwardness of the existing water facilities and technology, China's industrial water consumption of 103 cubic meters per million yuan of output value, the United States is 8 cubic meters, Japan is only 6 cubic meters; we repeat the utilization rate of industrial water is only about 55%, while the developed countries for an average of 75% -85%.
Life of people on the waste of water resources is also unscrupulous. Experiments show that a faucet if a second leakage of a drop of water, a year will drop 360 tons of water, and most of China's urban water distribution network and water appliances leakage loss of up to 20% or more, only the city commode tank leakage of a loss of hundreds of millions of cubic meters per year. The country's annual waste of water resources in more than 10 billion cubic meters. Beijing only a year of car wash water consumption, is equivalent to a more Kunming Lake or 6 Beihai water storage.
Our per capita arable land area of less than the world average of 2 / 5, we have to use less than the world's arable land area of 1 / 10 of the land, to feed the world's 1/4 of the population. But all kinds of names "enclosure movement" but our arable land has been sharply reduced, just a small solid clay bricks, can be a year to destroy 80,000-100,000 mu of good land, only brick factory encroachment of land amounted to 4 million acres.
In the sloppy use and unwarranted waste, energy has also entered an era of scarcity. Oil, natural gas, copper, aluminum and other important mineral resources per capita reserves of the lowest value, only accounted for the world average level of 1/25. At present, China's industrial production value of each million yuan than the developed countries more than the consumption of nearly 40% of energy and mineral resources, in addition to scientific and technological backwardness of the factors, man-made waste is a big loophole.
Whether it is the Asian financial crisis, or SARS that sudden disaster, have not been able to stop China's economy soaring momentum. However, from last year swept the country's energy constraints, raw material prices rose across the board, it is increasingly obvious that our economy is suffering from the pain of resource constraints. For a large developing country like us, the shortage of important resources will be constrained, the key time, resources may be money can not buy.
The imminent resource crisis sounded a natural alarm
Ride in the high-speed development of the economic train, in the face of more and more rich material life, we often feel a kind of contentment: the days of the past, life is more and more red hot.
But when we know that today's affluent life is to rely on excessive consumption of resources to achieve, today's development is to use the right of future generations to survive in exchange, we can still be so open to rough living?
"I thought you were infinitely wide and did not care to lose a shade. I thought you had infinite treasures and didn't care if you swept away a bit of peace. I thought you were incredibly strong, who knew your tears were flowing. Thought you were motherly and loving, who knew you were gradually losing your strength."
The scarcity and exhaustion of existing resources, and the demands and pressures of future development make it imperative that we listen to the warnings of nature. In the successive "coal shortage", "electricity shortage", "oil shortage", the people of the country first tasted the bitterness of the shortage of resources. In the queue to buy candles in the irritation, in the sudden darkness of the panic, alarm bells have actually sounded!
Geologists have confirmed after decades of surveys that because of its huge population base and rapid economic development, China has become a "weak resource country". 50 years from now, almost all of China's mineral resources, except for coal, will be in serious short supply, with about 50 percent of those resources facing depletion. Insiders warn that by 2010 China will enter an era of severe water shortages, and our children will have to pay a heavy price for our profligacy today.
This is a very dangerous signal. The lack of resources will become the greatest difficulty in restricting China's rapid economic development, and the greatest hidden danger in damaging our good life.
In fact, under the wheel of development, how to cope with the challenge of resource shortage has been a worldwide issue. In countries around the world, conservation has become a trend, and the awareness of resource conservation and protection has been integrated into every detail of life in many countries.
Those are countries that are far richer than we are, but their meticulous approach to resource utilization puts us to shame.
The United States is a resource-rich country, and their level of national consumption is among the highest in the world. But American students' textbooks are reused, a textbook to be used at least 8 students, the average service life of 5 years. The service life of our textbooks is only half a year! China's existing primary and secondary school students 2.2 billion people, the current handbook of textbooks can be used continuously for five years, deduct the cost of saving money will be considerable! And in the textbook recycling process, and how many forests can be spared!
Our close neighbors, the Koreans, have been saving to the teeth, because they cherish resources, they developed a potato starch or rice noodles as raw material for food toothpicks. Like restaurants with disposable tablecloths, hotels with disposable toiletries, etc., in South Korea has long been gone.
Disposable chopsticks were invented by the Japanese, whose forests cover up to 65 percent of the country, but they are strictly prohibited from cutting down trees on their own land to make disposable chopsticks, which are imported from China, and after they have been used, the chopsticks will be processed and produced into pulp and exported to China for foreign exchange.
Hewlett-Packard is a world-renowned company, strong and wealthy, but they have set up a "spare box" and "regeneration box" in the office, only used one side of the paper are placed in a spare box, other people can reuse the back of that paper, and both sides of the paper are used. Both sides of the paper used in the recycling box into the recycling box. In any Epson company around the world, all double-sided printing paper must also be used to paste a variety of reimbursement tickets after use.
Behind these seemingly meticulous and even trivial behaviors is an increasingly accepted ****: no amount of wealth gives you the right to waste resources.
Resource conservation depends on everyone's action
Accumulated feathers sink boats, in our 1.3 billion people in the developing country, if everyone does not pay attention to saving resources, then our resource reserves will not be able to carry the Chinese nation's development of the boat;
Drops of water into a river, if the 1.3 billion people in China to really do the practice of economy, against waste, the power that it gathered will be is not only the support of our country towards the future, but also our nation's gift to the earth and mankind.
Don't do evil, don't do good. Life to eliminate waste can be done by everyone, can save where the head is.
Shower soap when turning off the tap, a bath can save 60 liters of water; with a cup of water to brush your teeth, only 0.5 liters of water, if you leave the tap on for 5 minutes, it will waste 45 liters of water; toilet using water-saving appliances, each time you can save 4-5 liters of water; wash dishes with a basin to catch the water to wash, instead of turning on the faucet, a meal can save 100 liters of water ......
The nation's 1.3 billion people each use one less pair of disposable wooden chopsticks, which means thousands of acres of forests are saved from deforestation. Every family in the country uses one less plastic bag per day, which can save a lot of oil consumption and reduce pollution to the environment.
Recycling 1 ton of waste paper can produce 800 kilograms of good paper, which can cut down 17 trees, save 3 cubic meters of landfill space, but also save more than half of the paper-making energy and reduce water pollution by 35%.
If the use of energy-saving light sources, our lighting power consumption will drop 60%, a year can save 74 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, equivalent to saving 29.89 million tons of standard coal. If the country's existing 130 million refrigerators are all replaced by power-saving refrigerators, the annual power savings of 43.132 billion kilowatt-hours, equivalent to half of the Three Gorges Hydropower Station's power generation ......
It is not an exaggeration to say that each of our hands are holding the precious "resource
It is no exaggeration to say that each of us is holding precious "resources" in our hands, and we have the power to kill or take away the "lifeblood" of the development of the nation, and we have to destroy and love the loss of the actions of each one of us.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the party and the government once vigorously advocated saving a degree of electricity, a drop of water, a drop of oil, a catty of coal, an inch of cloth spirit. Now the economy has developed, income has increased, the days are better, but the spirit of thrift is not only not outdated, but with the development of the times has a richer meaning.
"Thrift nourishes virtue," and since ancient times, the Chinese people have always taken thrift as a virtue worth honoring. Today, our 20-word civic moral program also includes thrift and frugality in the book.
Choosing thrift is not only choosing a way of life and pursuing a spiritual quality, it is also establishing a path towards the future.
It is called sustainable development.
It requires 1.3 billion people to make a concerted effort and to be physically active.