With the increasing climate pressure, developing low-carbon economy, developing low-carbon city construction and realizing low-carbon life in an all-round way has gradually become the consensus of all walks of life. However, some citizens and even government officials still have five doubts about the realization of low-carbon life, which should be solved by all parties.
Confused about low carbon life
The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor, which causes 80 ~ 95% greenhouse effect. According to different research data, first, carbon dioxide only accounts for 10-14% of greenhouse gases, and 85-97% of which are produced in nature. Therefore, the contribution of carbon dioxide produced by human beings to the greenhouse effect is very limited (0.2-0.3%). Atmospheric physicist Fred singer calculated that if the Kyoto protocol can meet the target, the greenhouse effect can be reduced, and the impact on the earth's temperature in 2050 is only 0.05 degrees. What is the intention of Western society to advocate low-carbon life in the economic crisis?
Perplexity of low carbon life
Does the realization of low-carbon life mean reducing the living standards of urban residents? Some citizens believe that from the perspective of saving resources and energy, environmental protection and reducing carbon emissions, realizing low-carbon life is not only a great event, but also a good thing. But judging from the requirements of low-carbon life, it may reduce the living standard that people have not easily improved. For example, when people improve their living standards, they hope to improve their travel conditions by buying cars or cars with large displacement and better performance, and hope to buy larger houses to improve their living conditions.
These are obviously incompatible with low-carbon life. Experts such as Wang xianen, Professor of the school of environment and resources of Jilin University, believe that there is no conflict between fully realizing low-carbon life and maintaining or improving people's living standards. Their common purpose is to better improve people's living environment and conditions. The key is to find a combination point, explore a low-carbon sustainable consumption mode, and maintain a high standard of living At the same time, try to reduce the use of energy consuming products, reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
Yang Yisheng, deputy director of the development research center of the Fujian provincial government, said that low carbon life is not a backward lifestyle, and engaging in low-carbon economy will not necessarily reduce our quality of life. In the state of low-carbon economy, convenient transportation and comfortable and spacious houses can be guaranteed, and low-carbon technology can be adopted to solve these problems. For example, reclaimed water can be used to irrigate green space, solar energy and other renewable energy can be used for lighting and daily use, clean energy such as coalbed methane can be used as vehicle fuel, and renewable energy heat pump technologies such as sewage source, shallow water source, deep high-temperature underground water source, soil source and other renewable energy heat pump technologies can be used to solve the heating problem of buildings.
In Huihe Park of Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, the street lamps, underground lamps, courtyard lamps and lawn lamps are all powered by solar energy. In addition, intelligent control is added to all lamps and lanterns, which can automatically turn off the lights in the daytime and turn on the lights automatically at night, saving about 800000 kwh of electricity annually. While enjoying the physical and mental pleasure brought by urban construction, the local people can virtually save energy resources and reduce carbon emissions.
Three puzzles about low carbon life
Low carbon life is too far away from the daily life of urban residents. Will ordinary citizens "have more heart than strength"? Some citizens think that low-carbon life is only a theoretical assumption, which is like an "unreachable" dream for them, which is too far away from their daily life. Some people also think that low-carbon life is a systematic project, which can not be realized only by the people themselves. It is better to "muddle along" according to the daily life style. Some experts believe that the living habits and consumption patterns formed by urban residents for a long time are really difficult to change in a short period of time.
In this kind of inertia life mode, the implementation of low-carbon life may also bring inconvenience. However, these can not be the reasons why people refuse low-carbon life. As long as people start from the details and have the determination and desire to change, low-carbon life can be realized. Luo Xingbi, a staff member of WWF Changchun project office, said that in the action to stop global warming, not only the government and enterprises need to formulate effective countermeasures, but every ordinary person can play an important role. It is not only the trend of the current society, but also the embodiment of individual social responsibility to reduce personal carbon footprint and cultivate a low-carbon lifestyle in life. Cui Shumin, Deputy Secretary General of Taiyuan municipal government, picked up some documents from his desk to let me see that they were printed on the back of waste paper.
Not only that, they also make some more blank paper into note paper, make full use of it and never waste it. "Global climate change affects our living and living environment, so we need more people to participate in the practice of low-carbon lifestyle and contribute to environmental protection. Starting from each of us, from the change of community residents and lifestyle. To achieve low-carbon life, citizens can do a lot, including reducing high-carbon energy consumption, green travel, recycling of garbage, etc. "Cui Shumin said. Zhang Huilian, senior project officer of the sustainable development education center of Daohe Institute of environment and development, said: "low carbon life is very simple. If the bath water temperature is lowered by 1 degree, the carbon dioxide can be reduced by 35 grams each time.
When you finish your meal, you can turn off the range hood and turn it off for 10 minutes a day, which can save 12 kilowatts of electricity a year. "The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has put forward several small suggestions for the" low-carbon lifestyle ". For example, changing 45 minutes of exercise on the electric treadmill to jogging in a nearby park can reduce nearly 1000 grams of carbon dioxide emissions; let the clothes dry naturally instead of washing machines, which can reduce 2300 grams of carbon dioxide emissions; turn off the computer at rest and after work And display, in addition to saving electricity, can also reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of these appliances by 1 / 3 and so on.
Four puzzles about low carbon life
Low carbon life is a matter for urban residents themselves. Can the government and relevant departments be "shopkeepers"? Some city government and relevant department leaders believe that low-carbon life is mainly concentrated in the life field of citizens, which is the matter of urban residents themselves. They mainly rely on the citizens to change their ideas and practice them. On the one hand, the government and relevant departments have no right to interfere, on the other hand, they are also very weak in the change of citizens' daily life style. Experts believe that the government and relevant departments are not only managers of social affairs, but also service providers of people's lives.
Low carbon life is not only the conscious behavior of citizens, but also requires the government and relevant departments to create a low-carbon living environment. For example, the construction of low-carbon residential areas, the support of "venous" industries such as waste recycling, and giving certain rewards to the citizens who consciously implement low-carbon lifestyle, all of which have the effect of "four or two efforts" to form a good low-carbon lifestyle. Some citizens also expressed the hope that the local government and relevant departments would provide some information services to realize low-carbon life, and guide their life behavior by introducing some policies.
Taiyuan, Baoding and other cities have effectively guided people's lifestyle and consumption habits by formulating and implementing green standards involving various industries and printing and distributing low-carbon life manuals. The successful practice of these cities has also proved that the government and relevant departments can not only "shake hands" in the process of realizing low-carbon life, but also can promote the effective development of the whole work through their own efforts.
Perplexity of low carbon life 5
With the low-carbon issue becoming a hot spot, more and more people begin to pay attention to low-carbon, but there are also disputes about low-carbon.
More and more opposition voices tell us that there is a huge controversy on the issue of low carbon. With the outbreak of the climate gate event, the world was shocked by the fact that scientists from the United Nations IPCC tampered with the data to cater for global warming. Many domestic scholars have also said: global warming is a huge controversy, low carbon is not equal to environmental protection! Many articles and books (such as "in the name of carbon") have systematically exposed the history of low-carbon scams. There are even opponents who call low-carbon a fundamentalist hysteria.
Of course, environmental problems are closely related to people's lives. To redress the injustice of carbon dioxide here is not to connive people to destroy the environment. Compared with those shows in the name of carbon, we should devote more energy to the environmental problems that really need to be dealt with. We hope that the mainstream media in China will not blindly follow suit. We need to think independently.
