This is a true story. In the south of Beijing 10 km, there is a small protected area: Beijing Elk Garden, which was built in Nanhaizi, the site of the Royal Hunting Garden in Qing Dynasty. It is famous at home and abroad for its research and breeding of elk, a unique animal in China that was once extinct in China and returned to its hometown. In order to make this ill-fated and recovered species settle down in Elk Garden, the state attaches great importance to it, not only providing financial and scientific research support, but also setting up the Elk Garden Police Station, where police are stationed all the year round. For more than ten years, loyal police have patrolled around the 1000 mu of elk garden day after day, so that the national first-class protected animal elk here has never been poached.
In fact, the elk here are not safe, and several abnormal deaths occur every year. The cause of death is neither shooting nor poisoning, but environmental pollution and ecological degradation! Eating plastic bags by mistake again and again makes it die of infarction, and the surrounding desertification and garbage make the quality of life of elk worse and worse: water resources are scarce, vegetation withers, wetlands dry up ... The prohibited sand digging activities outside the Luyuan wall not only make the surface water in the Elk Garden lose a lot, but also make the vegetation yellow, and every time it blows, the exposed land without vegetation protection will be dusty, with loess all over the sky, close to the Elk Garden. 10 years ago, it was a scene of low winds and grass, weeping willows, birds singing and flowers fragrant, and gulls gathering, which made this country a water town. Why are police guards worried about keeping it safe? It turns out that there is also a problem with another kind of security: ecological security. And isn't the ecological security of Elk Garden the epitome of human existence?
The National Outline of Ecological Environment Protection issued by the State Council clearly puts forward the goal of maintaining national ecological security. What is "national ecological security"? National ecological security refers to the state that the ecological environment needed by a country's survival and development is not destroyed or threatened. More and more facts show that ecological destruction will make people lose the space suitable for living, and then produce a large number of ecological refugees, which will impact social stability. Therefore, we must clearly realize that ecological security is an important part of national security and social stability.
The earth's environment is an organic body, and the causal relationship is inextricably linked. Ecological destruction will never be suppressed by a wall, nor will it be stopped by some artificial borders or the resistance of armed forces. According to the statistics of Worldwatch Institute in the United States, the number of ecological refugees caused by various ecological disasters exceeds100000 every year. They were displaced because they could not get food and drinking water to make a living. At present, land desertification, which is classified as a worldwide ecological disaster, is spreading from west to east in China at a rate of 2,460 square kilometers per year, spanning provinces and cities. The sand dunes in Nanmachang, Huailai County, Hebei Province are only 72 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square, and they are still advancing southward at a rate of 3-5 kilometers per year. Desert is a hell of life, a cancer of the earth and a reality not too far away from us. Recently, sandstorms are frequent, harmful and rare in history. After grasslands and cultivated land became deserts, many indigenous people had to become ecological refugees. As a result, the economic and social problems brought about by people leaving their homes can not be ignored, and a large number of floating population flows into cities, which has caused serious pressure on the national economy, people's lives, social stability and national unity.
In addition, the imbalance and discomfort of natural ecology have increasingly led to many diseases of human civilization, because human physical and mental diseases (such as the worship of armed forces and the proliferation of violent culture) are closely related to the instability of nature. This increase in insecurity will endanger the foundation of civilization, to some extent, more than the military threat. The complete disappearance of many ancient civilizations stems from the decline of ecological foundation. As the saying goes, "ecological crisis stems from psychological crisis" and "the desertification of the earth stems from emotional desertification".
Ecologists believe that security should be extended to a comprehensive reflection of unsafe factors in modern society, and ecological security should be regarded as an important part of national security. There are many reasons for the breach of the ecological levee, including the unsustainable lifestyle of fishing, suffering hardships, eating green, asking for money and not dying, and ecological aggression from abroad! Some luxury consumer markets abroad have caused a serious crisis to the living conditions of wild animals in China. The demand for "shahtoosh" in European fashion market makes China full of unique Tibetan antelope corpses. Falcons in the northwest of China have been repeatedly hunted and smuggled because of the preference of Middle Eastern dignitaries for falcons. South Korea ate bear bile powder and imprisoned thousands of wild bears in China; Japanese couples have the problem of giving love birds to each other, and China exporters buy a large number of wild birds, which leads to fewer birds and more insects in nature and aggravates ecological imbalance; The Japanese themselves do not cut down trees, but import a large number of disposable wooden chopsticks from China; Western countries don't raise sheep themselves, but they subsidize China to raise sheep. What they got was cashmere. As the saying goes, "Enjoy it for the first time, spin it for the second time, and raise it for the third time", which has caused soil erosion and vegetation destruction in China. This naked ecological aggression, in the name of development and trade, opened the way with money and went straight to the hinterland of China, especially the ecologically fragile places in the west. This long-lasting and extensive whaling plunder of the natural foundation on which the Chinese nation depends is far more serious than a war, and the disaster is longer! Ecological disasters such as desertification have now become a major concern of the Chinese nation.
Western development, ecological construction first; The forest and grass are not prosperous, and the earth is restless! We must face up to it: in terms of national security, we are faced with a security problem that no amount of armed forces can guarantee, but it is related to national peril, harmony between man and nature and social stability: ecological security.