Maple's Special – 14
Well, do you know that China is practicing “green” now?
One may have a perception that China is a less-developed country hence the government will focus more on the country development instead of putting its effort in saving the planet. It is true that China government’s main focus is how to build the country more advances, but it is wrong to think that saving planet in China context is a small issue.
Compared to Singapore, perhaps China is doing a far better job in the effort of protecting the environment. Similar to Korea, the plastic bag is no longer provided in supermarket of China. The people here are all using recycle bag or else take the goods in hand. If you buy too many things and really need one plastic bag, you have to pay 20cents to 50 cents RMB for each plastic bag.
Every time when we (Singaporean students) were buying stuff from supermarket, we always became the only group who are not environmental friendly as we demanded for plastic bag. Somehow, I feel ashamed. Know why? As we being a resident of a developed country, we didn’t become the role model of “be green”, instead we’re the one who waste the earth resources and create pollution.
Besides plastic bag, China government has banned the production of petroleum-generated motorbike. Nowadays the motorbikes found in China are mostly electrical motor bike, with exception of some old petroleum-generated motorbikes. This is one of the measures taken by China in order to reduce the emission of pollutants into the air.
From this, I find that China is actually putting in pains in order to save the Mother Earth. Though the amount of pollutants released is still greater than the amount of pollutants being cut down, though China is less advanced compared to Singapore, though Singapore is still cleaner than China, but at least China is doing something, at least China government is thinking ways to reduce its damage to the environment, at least the people here are willing to change their lifestyle to do their part in securing earth.
In contrast, we, being the citizens of a more developed country, detests the Wednesday when we supposed to bring our own bag to supermarket. And we always feel troubled to categorize our wastes into 3 in order to let 3R system takes place. Most of us are short-sighted, unable to see the consequences that we will bring to the environment in the future for our selfish act today. Even though now we have everything we need in hand, but if we don’t change our attitude now, nice environment for future can only be a far-fetch dream.
So, let’s not be selfish, think more about the environment, do our part, save our home.
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