Maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River is the requirement of sustainable development.
The meaning of sustainable development was first put forward by the former Norwegian Prime Minister, Mrs. Brundtland, in 1987, and was widely recognized by the world. It is a development that not only meets the needs of contemporary people, but also does not harm the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Its basic points include three aspects: first, demand, the goal of development should meet people's needs; The second is restriction, which emphasizes that human behavior should be restricted by nature; The third is fairness, emphasizing fairness between generations, between humans and other biological populations, and between different countries and regions. Sustainable development includes ecological sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability, which are interrelated and inseparable. Ecological sustainability is the foundation, economic sustainability is the condition and social sustainability is the goal. The essence of sustainable development is to keep the harmony between man and nature. From the reality of the Yangtze River, the key to the sustainable development of water resources lies in maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River.
In view of the experience and lessons of half a century's water control practice, and adhering to the requirements of Scientific Outlook on Development, China put forward a new idea of water control, that is, changing from traditional water conservancy to modern water conservancy and sustainable development, and supporting the sustainable development of economy and society with the sustainable utilization of water resources, which embodies the concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
The harmony between man and nature mainly reveals the relationship between life, environment and the sustainable development of human society, and embodies the dual care for human values and natural values, as well as the respect and care for nature and life. Maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River is an important content to realize the harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
The essence of maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River is to establish a harmonious relationship between man and nature.
Maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River is the result of a correct understanding of the relationship between man and nature. In the development of human history, the relationship between man and nature has experienced four periods: dependence, development, plunder and harmony. In the case of extremely low productivity in primitive society, human beings passively adapt to nature, and man and nature are interdependent; After the improvement of productivity, human beings began to develop and utilize nature; With the progress of science and technology and the further improvement of productivity, human beings have taken and plundered from nature without restraint, which has caused retaliation and punishment from nature. When human beings realized the serious harm of this predatory development, they began to seek a new realm of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
From "harmony between man and nature" to "man will conquer nature" and then to "harmony between man and nature", in the philosophical sense, the development of the relationship between man and nature is a process of negation and spiral rise. "Harmony between man and nature" is different from "harmony between man and nature", which is the product of a certain degree of economic and social development and the inevitable requirement of high economic and social development.
Fully understanding the development history of the relationship between man and nature is of great significance for consciously establishing and implementing Scientific Outlook on Development and correctly handling the relationship between water resources development and ecology.
Maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River conforms to Marxist epistemology.
Marxist epistemology tells us that human knowledge always comes from and serves practice. Moreover, knowledge is endless, and human beings always discover and test the truth in the constant cycle of "practice-knowledge and practice-knowledge". The new concept of "maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River" accords with Marxist epistemology. It is in the long-term practice of harnessing the Yangtze River that people gradually realize the great harm of water environment and ecological deterioration of the Yangtze River and the great significance of maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River.
The proposal of maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River stems from people's understanding of nature. After encountering the revenge of nature, people reflect on the problems existing in traditional water conservancy and put forward the transformation from engineering water conservancy to resource water conservancy and finally to ecological water conservancy.
River basin agencies are the spokesmen of rivers, and it is their unshirkable responsibility to maintain the healthy ecology of rivers.
The philosophical value of "maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River" lies in that it can change people's ideas and ways of thinking, inspire and enlighten people's wisdom and creativity, deepen their understanding of the Yangtze River, promote its management and development, and improve its management mechanism. Man must abandon the idea of conquering nature, live in harmony with nature and conform to the laws of nature. People should not only consider their own needs for water, but also the needs of nature and other creatures in nature, and properly handle the relationship between people and water.
Dialectical materialism thinking on maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River
From the perspective of Marxist materialist dialectics, everything in the world is universally related and develops forever, and rivers are no exception. It is closely related to human beings, the development of human society and economy and other ecological elements in nature, and is highly related to loss and glory.
For a long time, in order to survive and develop, people have developed rivers and made great achievements. As Hegel said, "when human beings cheer for defeating nature, it is the beginning of nature punishing human beings." Engels pointed out more clearly: "We should not be too intoxicated with our victory over nature. Every time such a victory, nature is retaliating against us. " Unreasonable development and utilization, such as deforestation leading to soil erosion, land reclamation leading to the reduction of lake area and volume, encroachment on rivers leading to poor flood discharge, excessive use of water to crowd out river ecological water, and massive sewage discharge leading to water pollution ... The biodiversity of the Yangtze River is destroyed and the ecological environment is seriously threatened. If this situation is not controlled, the sustainable development of the Yangtze River basin will undoubtedly be restricted. As a result, some people of insight began to think about the relationship between human beings and rivers, and gradually realized that the relationship between human beings and rivers is not antagonistic. Humans should not just manage and control rivers, nor should they blindly develop and acquire rivers. Humans should pay more attention to the harmonious coexistence with rivers and the sustainable utilization of rivers. The concept of "maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River" adapts to this dialectical materialism thinking and this new development trend.
Maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River is the unity of man, nature and society on the basis of practice.
How to treat the relationship between man and nature is the ontological premise of maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River and promoting sustainable development. As two elements of social natural system, man and nature are prerequisites and constraints for each other. Human beings are the product of long-term evolution of nature, and natural environment and resources are the important support for human survival and development. In the interaction between man and nature, man tries to exert his creativity to change the original state of nature to meet his own needs and show his transcendence, while nature always restricts man's activities with his own inherent attributes and laws. When people deal with the relationship with nature, they also form the relationship between people and society. The relationship between man and society also exists and presupposes each other. Man is the subject of social relations, the product of human practical activities and the premise of human life and production activities. Only in a certain social relationship can people get their own essential rules.
As an important element of natural ecosystem, water is the source of all life. The unity of opposites between man and nature, man and society requires human beings to give full play to their subjective initiative in water conservancy work, fully respect the law of water resources recycling and its relationship with related ecosystems, realize the unity of subject scale and object scale, and coordinate the relationship between good people and water.
From the perspective of Marxist philosophical ontology, the proposition of "maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River" embodies the close unity of the objective existence and value of the Yangtze River with the social and economic development of human beings and the new needs of human subjects. This paper puts forward a new concept of "maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River", which expresses human respect for the Yangtze River and other species, expresses the new concept of harmonious coexistence between man and river, and emphasizes the dialectical unity of subject and object.
In a word, the philosophical value of "maintaining the healthy ecology of the Yangtze River" reveals a new relationship between man and river, that is, the relationship between man and river is harmonious. It is emphasized that while giving full play to subjective initiative, we should fully respect the objective laws of rivers, strive to achieve the unity of management, development and protection, the unity of demand and regeneration, and realize a new realm of river management with harmonious human and water.