China's economy has skyrocketed, but at a price. Power plants, factories and heavy industries are all belching out black, dirty air; air pollution has become a serious problem. As incomes rise and priorities shift away from only covering the basic needs to ensuring a better life, environmental awareness is also soaring in China.
We check the PM2.5 everyday and buy thick masks to prevent the polluted air; it seems that everyone is in panic, but why? Smog hangs heavy over Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong; people there face with terrible health consequences, so did us. Even though we cannot see the air clearly, it almost becomes the biggest killer in our life. It has been linked to increased incidences of cancer, heart disease, stroke and respiratory illnesses. On a less severe level, it is associated with asthma in children, and thus impaired quality of life for many kids. Kids are the future of our country; we must try our best to save our country.
How to achieve it? There’s a lot of things can be done. China should enforce and reinforce its own pollution laws and then ensure the standards are up to the same as in the first world. Second, Recycling probably needs to be better organized and maybe we can introduce cleaner fuel standards and switching to electric vehicles. Forth, the government should make complete air quality information easily available to the public. Finally, China could also look at best global practices from all over the world.
