China 's Drive Toward Ecological Civilization

The rapid economic growth in China has led to the destruction of forests, the pollution of water, and the continuous pollution of the air. With the dramatic increase in the population, building production to house the citizens must increase as well at a startling pace as the land fields decrease in order to make space. A decline in land leads to a lack of resources, putting the country into a state of panic. A surge in building production leads to an increase in carbon foot printing, adding to the massive amount of pollution in the environment already. Alternative

Although China’s economy has soared during the modern era, their environment has not experienced the same fate. The dramatic increase in industrial processes paired with the lack of governmental regulations has devastated China’s environment; consequently, China contains sixteen of twenty most polluted cities in the world (“Special Report,” 2004). China is the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases which trap heat in the atmosphere making the Earth warmer resulting in global climate change (Albert & Xu, 2016). Therefore, China has suffered an array of environmental effects including climate change, acid rain, soil erosion, air and water pollution, and lastly a loss of biodiversity; furthermore, these effects are migrating to other countries (Zhou, 18). As the number one energy user, China’s pollutants even create acid rain in Tokyo and Seoul; hence, China’s pollutants not only affect the overall environmental health in China but also the entire world (Hays, 2013).

However, it also has major impacts on the natural and built environments and on the well being and culture of host populations. In roughly that same period, the concept of sustainable development has become widely accepted as the way to a better future, even though its roots go back to the 1980s (Making Tourism More Sustainable, 2005).

One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.

Sustainability is a word that seems to be constantly popping up around us. But I suppose that’s to be expected when we live in a time period where sustainability is essential for our survival as our planet continues to fall down in a spiral of destruction, poverty and war. So why is sustainability such a difficult thing for people to do? Why doesn’t everybody make a little effort to make a big difference? I presume part of the reason is people don’t know how they can help. How can me, one person, in this 7 billion populated planet make a difference? I believe the first place to start is to be taught about the problems we face surrounding sustainability, or more correctly, the problems we are going to continue to face if we

Its market reforms still aren’t complete and its per capita income is still much lower than any advanced country, which has led to China’s high inequality. Along with economic issues, the rapid economic growth has caused multiple other issues. China’s main focus has been solely on its economic aspects for so long that it almost seems as if they have been blind to the environmental degradation, increasing rural crisis, growing unemployment and poverty, government corruption, deteriorating public services, as well as escalating social unrests that is and has been occurring for a while now. Although all of these issues at hand are important, the issue that I will be focusing on is the massive environmental degradation and how it has been affected by the increases in Buddhist religious freedom and ecotourism.

The need to link the economical development with a greater concern about our planet gave birth to a new concept of sustainable development, which identifies a progress compatible with the preservation of the environment and resources for the future generations.

Sustainable development suggests the implementation of state-imposed limitations, with the purpose of reducing the amount of resources and space we overtake and ultimately, the amount of damage we cause to our planet’s future. It requires that we view the earth as a system that both contains space and connects time. We are all interconnected, and the selfish, wasteful lifestyle that a country might live in North America can affect people all around the world, presently even. Generally, sustainable development can be separated into sections-two of them being social and environmental. Social sustainability places emphasis on the importance of public policy-making. It requires a political framework that consists of six areas-natural resource management, measurement and assessment, international trade and investment, climate change and energy, economic policy and communication technologies. Environment sustainability is concerned with the diversity and productivity of natural environments, and requires our generation to innovate activities so that they cause minimal harm to our natural environments. Our future on this earth will directly depend on our ability to introduce and implement the sustainable development techniques discussed in these fundamental sectors.

Sustainability is a topic that has become very important in recent years. Sustainability is defined as, “the ability to continue a defined behavior indefinitely.” ("Finding and Resolving the Root Causes of the Sustainability Problem", 2014)

China wants to make previously inaccessible resources accessible but this strategy has serious environmental risks because of developing projects in ecologically fragile regions and in protected territories and in countries with weak governance

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.

A more egalitarian social order could be implemented through the rise of the concept 'sustainable development.' Robert Kates, a professor at Brown University believes that "central to such a sustainability transition will be, for both population and consumption, a transition from more to enough" (Schmandt 79). As members of a capitalist society we have been socialized to always want more. We never have enough to satisfy our desires. I suggest we reassess our values. Sustainable development has been criticized for its direct connection to the perpetuation of capitalist ideals rather than truly challenging the existing structure. I believe that it is a good beginning to controlling our patterns of consumption as they are. It is a starting point that may

As our population is growing, when we are taking it for granted to ask the nature for resource we want, environmental protection is becoming more and more important and necessary. Water protection is especially urgent now. We can see the water pollution is becoming worse. In this essay, I am going to talk about the recent situation of the water pollution, the bad effects of it and some ways help to solve the problem as well.

First is necessary to clarify that the Chinese government (Christiansen & Rai,1988:214) tried to determine the economy by ideology. However, Mao ideas did not work at all and kept China as an underdeveloped country contrast to Xiaoping who clarified the challenges and did enormous reforms to rise china’s economy to one of the world leaders. But these economic reforms also developed unfamiliar problems for China. What the whole world deals with till nowadays. At present China is paying huge cost environmentally and socially for these developments (Tang et al.,2015) the economic developments and employment stability clashing with the environmental pollution and the people needs for higher living standards, and it leads to an ecological

Political Factors: The Chinese government has realised and reached a consensus on the importance of prioritising environmental protection beyond a “basic policy” of country agenda from 2009. The Chinese State Environmental Protection Agency spent $162.5 billion on environmental protection in 2009 and the Chinese government strongly committed