Beijing Air

There are many China bashers in America and the world. Some are outright racists. Others are trolls and negative talkers who find every opportunity to trash anything and everything Chinese. Their trolling and trash talks often reveal their own ignorance and stupidity, and lack of self-respect.

While on this subject of China bashers, I would like to mention that there is an opposite extreme. Some people, both Chinese and non-Chinese, are crazy China worshippers. They think anything and everything Chinese is good. Certainly this is wrong.

In a Yotube video about China's five-year plan to move forward, somebody raised this question to me, "would you take a deep breath in Beijing?" I don't know if this person is a China basher or not, but his question was a legitimate one, so I gave him a response: 

Thank you for your concern. I live in Canada. We have very clean air quality here. Beijing is not China, which is a huge country. Beijing is the capital, one of many Chinese cities. Indeed Beijing doesn't have very good air quality. However, the cities with the worst air pollution are mostly in India, not China. Beijing is not even among the top 20 cities with the worst air pollution in the world.

Air quality, water, soil and all such environmental issues are important not only in Beijing or China. It is a global issue we should all be concerned with. Would I take a deep breath in Beijing? No, I don't have to. I live in Canada. But if I visit Beijing, I'll have no choice but to breathe the Beijing air. Millions of people live in Beijing. They have no choice. They are humans. They need to breathe to live.

Please don't belittle the very important environmental issues. If you want to find fault with a country, you'll be able to identify many problems everywhere, not just in Beijing or China. I can ask you a similar question: would you drink the contaminated water in Flint, U.S.A.? Please be a good world citizen and wish all countries to co-operate and fight environmental problems together. We all live in the same boat, which is Planet Earth. Cheers!

Global Warming

In this blog, I wrote about Climate Change on Dec.31, 2013 and gave it some further comments on Nov.11, 2014. Today's topic is titled Global Warming.    

Just finished watching an Al Jazeera weather report in You Tube. The video is titled February (2016) Shatters Global Temperature Records.

I don't like the term of Climate Change, because weather is very changeable in the short term, and climate always changes in the long term. There would be cold and hot periods from time to time. So what climate change? Climate always changes.

There is some truth regarding global warming, but still I think the focus should be on carbon emission, air pollution, water contamination, rising sea level, environmental abuse, and the misuse and over-harvest of the natural resources on planet earth. These are the real issues that we must deal with. I mean don't argue about terminologies like abnormal weather, climate change, global warming, deep freeze and so on. Instead, deal with the real issues.

I believe global warming is real, but it is not an absolute truth. In other words, global warming is generally true, but not specifically true. Whether it is cold, warm or hot, it depends on the time and location of the place in question. While there are melting and decreasing ice fields in the Arctic, the ice fields in the Antarctic are expanding.

Some believe that global warming is largely caused by human activities, so what? Some believe that global warming is normal, and is largely caused by nature's own forces, so what? Some reject global warming is even real, so what? In any case, we have to deal with the problems, the reality, the facts and effects, not just arguing about terminologies or causes. Again, the real issues are  carbon emission, air pollution, water contamination, rising sea level, environmental abuse, and the misuse and over-harvest of the natural resources on planet earth.

I believe that burning fossil fuels for energy is primitive, not advanced. The whole world should switch to clean, green and renewable energy. It will be much better for the health of  planet earth and its inhabitants.

P.S. A repeated joke on a public notice: due to the cold weather, the protest on global warming has been cancelled.

Water and Oil

The hazardous water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is another wake-up call. Indeed, not only the U.S., but the whole world must wake up.
 

Water is more precious than oil. Whether it is profitable or not, burning fossil fuels for energy is just primitive, not advanced. One day, in the future, clean, green and renewable energy will become the main source of energy.

 

We can live without oil, but we cannot live without water.

Precious Water

In the news, three million gallons of metal-contaminated wastewater has turned the Animas River in Colorado into mustard color. It looks bad. The U.S. Federal Government says that 40 percent of west coast headwaters are contaminated by mine runoff.

There are so many such water-contamination incidents, oil spills and man-made environmental devastations in the world. When will the humans learn that water is more precious than oil and gold?

Cancer

An easy way to get cancer: after a hot meal, you drink ice-cold water. Please don't do that. Cut down the consumption of red meat. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Wish you all healthy and happy !