China Pollution

Pollution in Beijing has exceeded the ‘Very unhealthy’ alert and is now rated unlivable. People in Beijing are advised to avoid going outside wherever possible. Good morning/afternoon everyone. I 'm here today to raise awareness about air pollution in Beijing, the capital city of china.

Beijing, China has a coal mining history of nearly 800 and some odd years. This has been a major air pollutant and the main reason for it is because its economy has grown substantially in the last 30 years. Worldwide, there are twenty cities with the highest, worst air pollution, sixteen of those cities are within China alone. The main causes of Beijing’s air pollution can be pointed to several factors. Large economical growth, an increase in vehicles on the roads, growth in population, and manufacturing. China has also experienced major economic growth with a large rise in Gross Domestic Product. This increase can be connected with pollution. Vehicles are just one contributor to pollution which we will discuss later in this paper.

Air pollution in China has been a very serious issue and a health crisis, China is so heavily populated that everything that people do on a normal day is leads to air pollution. China’s use of coal is the major cause for China air problem and doesn't look like it is going to be slowing down anytime soon without the help of the government. “Coal is the major cause, and will continue to be the country's biggest source of energy and air pollution. Although billions have been pledged for renewable energy, 200 new coal power plants will be built across the country”(Charney). With China’s large use of coal they need to focus on cutting down on production and focus shutting down coal factories and moving towards not using coal at all. China’s population has faced many health risks with the air pollution problem, one of the most common ones are respiratory

· Each year, an estimated 178,000 Chinese in major cities suffer premature deaths because of atmospheric pollution in excess of standards. Also, acid rain from high sulfur regions heavily damages the environment each year to crops and forests

It is predicted to pass the U.S. within the next two decades as it is still industrializing and has a greater population. At this time, 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are within the Chinese borders. The main pollutant producer in China right now is the burning of high sulfur content coal. China does not currently have the level of regulations as the U.S. maintains and does not fall under the Kyoto Protocol as it is still classified as a developing nation. (Globalization and China’s Environment, N.D.).

One of China’s main goals is to achieve and maintain a harmonious socialist society by 2020. This is an ambition not easily obtained. Public outrage and lessening opinions of the government are growing in China reflected by the increasing number of public disturbances and riots. The police and military are quick to respond highlighting China’s poor human rights record. Pollution too is a major problem in China with 16 out of the world’s 20 most polluted cities being China. Over 700,000 deaths are attributed annually to pollution. Although China is moving towards better environmental sustainability, two thirds of its energy comes from coal sources currently and every dollar of GDP uses three times more energy than the global average.

Many know that China does not have the most positive background towards climate change, and being one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, something has to be done. Furthermore, their initiative to this negative title and better their carbon footprint is questionable. With a substantial population, countless factories, and unfathomable waste disposal, it may be difficult to regulate or attempt to improve their ecological standpoint; however, little efforts have been presented. Recently, China has addressed their impact on climate change and plan to make drastic measures in order to, literally, clean up their act; however, have they dug a hole too deep to get out of?

Science is developing everyday. There are numerous amounts of products coming out from the companies and being wasted everyday. Interesting fact is even though people are brilliant at making new products, but they do not have solution how they are going to do with the waste after being used. Most of the wastes are ship to developing countries in Asia. The major country would be China. Since China has 3rd largest land scale in whole world there are numerous amount of trash to be buried or burn. Also, there are a lot of companies around the world have factories in China, because they have cheap labor and huge land. Major company would be Apple, Omega watch, and other huge companies we know. Since china takes numerous amount of percentage of human population around the world there are food problems in China, which affects the sustainability in environment.

China witnesses rapid economic growth after the economic reform in 1978. This economic development brings people great wealth and also a huge cost on the environment. Water and air pollution are among most serious environmental problems, others like soil retrogression and degradation, deforestation, and human health problems coming with these issues are becoming more severe too. In addition, due to China’s biggest population on earth, the impact of these pollutions goes beyond border and becomes a global issue too.

In last twenty years, China has grown into a dominant supplier of manufactured exports around the globe. Although, it increases the interest of rural Chinese manufacturers to get settle in urban areas. It results in an escalation in demand for electricity that is met via burning coal and use of other fossil fuels because it is the cheapest way to meet the burgeoning need of electricity at the lowest price. Hence, it increases the air pollution by the emission of green gases like Carbon dioxide (CO2) in China (You & Xu, 2010, p. 4471). The environment has to face the tragic significant of increased economy of China. The Ministry of Environment Protection of China has proclaimed that the industrial productions, coal burning and the dust from construction sites causes the 80-90% of the pollution in China (You & Xu, 2010, p. 4473). This data is collected from the sources analyzed from the nine different cities of China. The key element of air pollution is the excess coal consumption in Shijiazhuang and Nanjing. In winter, eastern parts of China are affected by a hazardous haze. This dust-haze is a cumulative outcome of the natural factors and economic factors. The coal-fired power plants, factories, and vehicles cause the dust-haze. The crude from oil giants is also the cause of decreased quality of air and water. The rapid development of China with

Energy and power do indeed mark the pillars of any national economy and China is no different. China, with one of the world's largest populations has an economy which is founded on the context of high labour, great deals of labour and thus needs the relevant resources of energy to support these moves, amid a high level of competition. This is particularly exacerbated by the fact that in the last ten years, China has gone through marked industrial and urban development at record speed with the strong development of the gross domestic product (Best & Levina, 2012). This created a doubled consumption of their energy demands; making China the leading energy consumer in the world (Best& Levina, 2012). Thus, certain details like pricing, the mechanisms of pricing, the ability to transport and other choices mean that a range of factors come into play given the decisions connected to China selecting coals at the main means of their electric generation planning.

Abstract: Economic development is very critical for better future of any country and its residence but for one to gain something thing they must lose something. This has been the case with china’s economy and the environment. China’s growing manufacturing sector and increase in consumption has taken the country’s economy to new heights. Today china is one of the largest economic powerhouse in world, but at what cost. China’s manufacturing sector is the largest in the world. It creates massive air pollution and waste. My paper will illustrate numerous dominant sources of economic growth in china and its colossal impact on the environment in china. In addition, my paper will discuss policies made for betterment of the environment.

Trade between China and Canada has expanded greatly over the past number of decades, placing China as Canada’s second-largest source of imports (Francis, Painchaud & Morin, 2005). Despite the $52.7 billion dollars in revenue China earned from 2013 Canadian imports (Tremblay, 2014), the cost of producing inexpensive goods is costing China greatly (Zhu & Ruth, 2015). Sun, Kahn & Zheng (2017) found that less than 1% of 500 cities in China meet World Health Organization air quality standards, consequently, the health of the people and the viability of the ecosystems are suffering. Since 1985 the export focus in China has moved from agriculture and mining to apparel, computers and electrical equipment (Francis, Painchaud & Morin, 2005). It is

Do not know when to begin, people hardly breathe fresh air and seldom see the blue sky. When people go out with friends and family members, they do not have cheerful mood to enjoy the time when they are supposed to be joyous because they have to wear masks all the time. More and more people prefer to tour abroad when they have free time instead of traveling in China due to the fact that they want to avoid haze. The severity of air pollution is more than impacting people’s mood, more and more children and seniors in China fall ill because of respiratory disease, and death rate caused by it is increasing year by year. Government has noticed the danger of air pollution and importance of stopping it. To figure

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