Everyone is responsible for protecting the environment.
Friday, October 30th, 2009As has been pointed out before, air pollution is becoming more and more serious in large cities. As the capital city, Beijing’s atmosphere condition draws extensive concern.
It is well known that factories, vehicles and smokers are three major factors contributing to air pollution in Beijing. Due to the rapid growing economy and heating demand of the city, many new factories have been set up. The chimneys of these factories and waste product abandoned by them threaten the atmosphere. The number of private cars can be considered as the sign of prosperity of a city, yet the increasing number of private cars causes a great many problems. As for Beijing, air pollution is a seriously negative impact imposed by the increasing number of private cars. Smoke is another contributory factor of air pollution in Beijing, not only theatens the health of the human body, but also brings out environment promblems.
Beijing government has brought out a more strict criteria of emission of waste gas and enhance the punishment to those who go against it. At the same time, they bulit more and more subway lines to relieve the traffic burden, as well as the pollution from private cars. Meanwhile, they encourage people to use public transportation as much as possible. However, protecting the environment is not only the government’s duty. It concerns every individual in the society. It is everyone’s responsibility. We should put more lessons about environment protection in our education too.