The earth is our home, we should protect it and not pollute it. To achieve a low-carbon life, it is actually very simple.
I remember last summer, the weather was very hot, and my family and I "hid" at home watching TV. Dad left the sofa, walked under the air conditioner, looked for the air conditioner remote control, and pressed it a few times. Then I walked to the sofa and sat down. I asked my dad curiously: "Dad, what did you just do?" Dad said: "Nothing!" I didn't believe it, so I put on my shoes, walked to the air conditioner, and picked up the air conditioner. I took a look at the remote control, and it turned out that my father had adjusted the air conditioner to 24 degrees Celsius. I said to my mother: "Mom, tell your father to turn off the air conditioner. If we turn off the air conditioner, turn on the electric fan." , How much carbon emissions can be reduced?" It also saves energy for nature.
I remember another time, my mother and I were going to buy paper plates. Since we needed to use them the next day, we went to the supermarket at night. When I was going out, my mother said to me: "Where will the car park when we go to the supermarket later?" I quickly said to my mother: "No, no! If you drive there, there will be no place to park. The most important thing is how much carbon will be emitted by driving!" Mom After listening to my words, he walked with me to the supermarket.
Low-carbon life is just an attitude, not an ability. We should start from small things like saving electricity, water, carbon, fuel and solar terms. Low-carbon life is the green life we ??want to build. Life style, as long as we take action, we can approach low-carbon life and even reach the standard of low-carbon life.
Rice water can be used to wash your face and hands, tea leaves can be dried to make tea pillows, traditional wind-up alarm clocks can be used to replace electronic alarm clocks, and electrical appliances can be unplugged at will... These seemingly casual actions are all It is decarbonizing the earth. Experts from the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said that "low-carbon life" actually refers to the four major elements of water saving, electricity saving, gas saving and recycling. When it comes to citizens' lives, they are all trivial matters.
Low-carbon life is actually not only related to grand propositions such as environmental protection and resource conservation. Even at the level of personal life, it has many benefits-it not only saves living expenses, but also is beneficial to physical and mental health. For example, choose green travel methods such as bicycles, walking, and buses; another example is to use less electricity, less paper, and save a drop of water; another example is to use environmentally friendly shopping bags and adopt a green tree...
1) Thoughts on "Low Carbon Life"
Nowadays, cities, countries, and even the world are vigorously promoting "low carbon". So why "low carbon"? The purpose is to protect the earth and enable humans to live on the earth longer.
The "climate warming" that is attracting attention now is serious environmental damage. Why is this happening? Various greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are produced when people burn fossil minerals to generate energy or cut down forests and burn them. Greenhouse gases emitted from refrigerators and other sources contribute to climate warming.
In fact, there are more reasons for the deterioration of the environment. I also learned from the Internet: A medium-sized supermarket's open freezer consumes about 48,000 kWh more electricity a year, which is equivalent to 19 tons more standard electricity. Coal emits about 48 tons more carbon dioxide and consumes about 190,000 liters more purified water. How amazing this data is! In fact, we don’t need to be exaggerated to protect the environment. We only need to do a little work, such as buying items with short transportation distance, insisting on climbing stairs, riding a bicycle or walking to work and school... In short, everything is fine.
Let us take action to protect the environment and the earth we live on!
(2) Low-carbon life
Nowadays, everyone is talking about low-carbon life, but there are still many people who have not achieved it. So what is a low-carbon life?
In fact, it is very simple to achieve low carbon, which is to use less electrical appliances. If possible, use primitive and traditional methods to replace things done with machines and electrical appliances.
So how to achieve low-carbon life more comprehensively? It is best to do the following: First, watch less TV and surf the Internet less. Read more books and go out for exercise. This not only protects your eyes, but also allows you to learn knowledge and exercise. How great! Second, using a water-saving shower head can not only save water, but also reduce the carbon dioxide caused by a normal three-minute hot shower by half. Third, changing the 45 minutes of exercise on the treadmill to jogging in the park can reduce nearly one kilogram of carbon dioxide emissions. This not only saves electricity, but also allows you to breathe fresh air outside. It really kills two birds with one stone!
After listening to the above introduction, I believe you must have learned some low-carbon knowledge! We should protect the environment and do our part to protect the earth.
(3) My low-carbon tour in Changsha
During the summer vacation, our family flew to Changsha together and found that Changsha is an environmentally friendly and low-carbon city.
After arriving in Changsha, as soon as I got out of the airport and took a taxi to my aunt’s house, I found that the roads in Changsha were very clean, there was no garbage on the sidewalks, and the air in Changsha was particularly fresh
After arriving at my aunt's house, my cousin came to pick us up. On the way, I asked my cousin: "Isn't there a ban on motorcycles in Changsha?" My cousin replied: "It is banned. These are all electric cars. At this time I thought to myself: No wonder the air here is so good. It turns out that all electric vehicles are used here.
Although electric vehicles are low-carbon and environmentally friendly, they are silent when driven and are prone to traffic accidents. I was almost hit by an electric vehicle several times.
On the second day in Changsha, we went to the Orange Island Scenic Area, which is located on the bank of the Xiangjiang River. We saw the beautiful scenery, the statue of Chairman Mao, and his poems there. I feel that this place is very beautiful, and the environment is well protected. The vehicles for tourists are all electric, and the environmental awareness is very strong.
On the third day, we ended our trip to Changsha and took the high-speed rail back to Guangzhou. The high-speed rail is very fast, with a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour. It only takes two hours from Changsha to Guangzhou. After returning to Guangzhou, I also learned from the Internet that the carbon emissions of a person taking the high-speed rail are 33% of that of flying. Taking the high-speed rail is really environmentally friendly and fast. Therefore, you should first choose trains and high-speed rail when traveling abroad to contribute to protecting the earth.
(4) Environmental changes around you during the Asian Games year
The Asian Games are about to be held. I am in Guangzhou, where the Asian Games will be held. Of course, I can feel the changes in Guangzhou bit by bit. Among them, the biggest change for me is the "BRT" and environmentally friendly bicycle stations.
"BRT" stands for "Bus Rapid Route". The station is fully equipped with sun visors, spray fans, and seats. The buses are also brand new. The buses in "BRT" take dedicated bus routes, and their speeds are much higher than before, making it easier for people to travel. "BRT" is also very affordable. It only costs 2 yuan to travel one way, and transferring to the same direction is free. Bus travel is environmentally friendly and low-carbon. If everyone travels by bus, car exhaust emissions will be greatly reduced, and Guangzhou's environment will become better.
Environmental bicycle stations are gradually emerging in Guangzhou, so what role does it play? It makes people pay attention to low-carbon life, and people can rent bicycles. Some people ride bicycles to work if they are close to their workplace. If they are far away, they can ride a bicycle to the bus station or subway station. This is much lower-carbon than driving a private car to work.
With these environmental protection measures, the air in Guangzhou is much better than before. I believe that Guangzhou will be able to host the Asian Games successfully, and I hope that the environment in Guangzhou will be better in the future.
The so-called "low-carbon life". It is to minimize the energy consumed during daily life and rest, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Low-carbon life is an attitude towards life for ordinary people like us. Low-carbon life promotion posters
have also become a new way for people to promote the trend. What it raises for us is the question of whether we are willing to cooperate with everyone to create a low-carbon life. We should actively promote and practice low-carbon life, pay attention to saving electricity, saving energy, turning off lights for one hour...start from these little things. In addition to planting trees, there are also people who buy goods with short transportation distances, and some people insist on climbing stairs. There are all kinds of things, some of them are very interesting, and some of them are a bit troublesome.
Carbon dioxide
However, people who are concerned about global warming have actually brought the reduction of carbon dioxide into their lives. One of the important ways to shift to a low-carbon lifestyle is to quit using high-consumption foods. A hobby of “convenience consumption” at the expense of energy. "Convenience" is a popular value in modern business marketing and consumer life. Many convenient consumption methods waste huge amounts of energy inadvertently. For example, refrigeration technology experts estimate that 70% of supermarket electricity consumption is used for freezers, and open freezers consume 20% more electricity than glass-door freezers. It can be calculated from this that a medium-sized supermarket's open freezer consumes about 48,000 kWh more electricity a year, which is equivalent to consuming about 19 tons more standard coal, emitting about 48 tons more carbon dioxide, and consuming about 190,000 liters more purified water. There are approximately 800 large and medium-sized supermarkets and 6,000 supermarket convenience stores in Shanghai. If glass-door freezers are widely used in large and medium-sized supermarkets, customers can save about 45.21 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year with just a little effort when shopping, which is equivalent to saving about 18,000 tons of standard coal and reducing emissions of about 45,000 tons of carbon dioxide. In China, the annual per capita CO2 emissions are 2.7 tons, but even if a city white-collar worker only has a living area of ??40 square meters, drives a 1.6L car to get off work and takes 12 flights a year, the carbon emissions will be 2,611 kilograms. From this point of view, energy conservation and emission reduction are imperative. If environmental protection concepts such as protecting the environment, protecting animals, and saving energy have become norms of behavior, low-carbon life is a green lifestyle that we urgently need to establish. Although "low-carbon life" is a new concept, it raises an old issue of sustainable development in the world. It reflects human beings' concerns about the future due to climate change, and the world is increasingly aware of this issue. Climate problems such as global warming have forced humans to consider the current ecological environment.
Personal Awareness
Human beings realize that excessive carbon emissions during production and consumption are one of the important factors causing climate problems. Therefore, in order to reduce carbon emissions, we must optimize and constrain accordingly. Certain consumption and production activities. Although there are still scholars who have different views on the causes of climate change, since the concept of "low-carbon life" at least complies with the human prudence principle of "preparing for a rainy day" and the pursuit of perfection psychology and ideals, "I would rather believe that it exists than believe that it exists" "Nothing", low-carbon life
The concept of "low-carbon life" has gradually been accepted by countries around the world. The emergence of low-carbon life not only tells people what you can do to reduce carbon emissions, but also tells people how you can do it. As this lifestyle gradually emerged, everyone began to care, have I done anything to reduce carbon emissions today? In Badaling, Beijing, a carbon sink forest farm has taken shape.
Forestry Carbon Sinks
If you want to offset your carbon emissions, you can come here to buy carbon sink forests or plant trees. Forestry carbon sequestration is through the implementation of afforestation, forest management, vegetation restoration and other activities. The chloroplasts in plant leaves absorb water, inorganic salts and moisture in the soil through photosynthesis, release oxygen and transport the manufactured organic matter to the soil through sieve tubes. , the fungi and bacteria in the soil then decompose the organic matter, thereby creating a material cycle, which plays a role in reducing carbon dioxide in the air in terms of low carbon. Rather than driving less or turning on the air conditioner less, the idea of ??purchasing carbon sink forests is welcomed by people. At present, the main measures to slow down climate warming are to reduce emissions and increase sinks. Compared with emission reduction methods, forestry carbon sequestration measures have become an important means of mitigating climate warming due to their low cost, multiple benefits, and easy operation. The core content of low-carbon life is low pollution, low consumption and low emissions, as well as more savings.
The earth is our home, the mother of mankind, and our indispensable support. Therefore, we must care for the earth and cherish every resource of the earth.
Think about the earth in the past, which was once so beautiful and fertile. Like a mother, she constantly provided various resources for human beings to survive. Nowadays, natural disasters such as hurricanes, blizzards, and floods are common in various countries due to improper environmental protection... bringing endless pain and losses to people around the world.
I remember reading an article describing the Set Kedas Falls. It turned out to be so powerful. The raging river roared down close to the cliff, gushing endlessly, and plunged thousands of miles. It was once the pride of the people of Brazil and Paraguay. Now, it is described as haggard and dying, like an old man on the verge of death. Soon it will disappear completely. The recent severe drought in southwest my country is even more shocking. "Guilin's landscapes are the best in the world." However, most of the Lijiang River bed is now exposed, and its former beauty is long gone. Similarly, Guizhou's Huangguoshu Waterfall has also It has shrunk to about a quarter of what it was in the same period of previous years; due to drought and water shortage, all wheat, corn and other crops in a town in Mile County, Yunnan have failed, and people are in danger of running out of food; even in the disaster-stricken areas of Yunnan, a ton of river water has been sold for 50 yuan .
After reading this, I was deeply shocked. I feel sad for the people in the disaster area, but also look down upon human selfishness. Think about it, people are deforestation indiscriminately for their own interests, causing a large amount of water and soil loss on the earth. For example, some countries in Asia are deforestation and deforestation in order to obtain timber and expand cultivated land area. In just 20 years from 1970 to 1990, India's forest area decreased by 40%. The result was an increase in floods and droughts in India. Nearly 50% of African forests have been cut down since the 1940s. As forests continue to decrease, deserts continue to spread, and droughts rage, hundreds of millions of people in Africa are threatened by hunger and water shortages. The tropical rainforest of the Amazon River in South America, which has the largest basin in the world, is known as the "treasure house of mankind." The basin area of ??the Amazon River is more than 7.05 million square kilometers. Today, the area of ??tropical rainforests is shrinking dramatically. Once the Amazon rainforest is destroyed, mankind will face a huge disaster. Many resources needed by humans could have been continuously regenerated and contributed to humans for a long time, but ruthless humans destroyed them and caused a series of ecological disasters.
Finally, the harsh facts awakened people’s conscience to protect the earth. People have begun to take action to protect our beautiful Mother Earth, increasing green vegetation as much as possible and reducing deforestation. All countries recognize the importance of jointly protecting the environment. The 2009 World Climate Conference in Copenhagen fully demonstrated this common sense of protecting the environment.
Here, I appeal, let us *** join hands, start from scratch, care for our Mother Earth, reject pollution, protect the ecological environment, let the land change from barren to rich, and let the earth be beautiful Reappear, so that human beings will no longer have suffering and pain!