1. Establish a cultural atmosphere of environmental protection and enhance citizens' awareness of environmental protection. China is a country with a complete environmental and cultural system. Since ancient times, our ancestors have created and worshipped various gods of nature, and the formation of the traditional environmental cultural system with the philosophical proposition of "the unity of man and nature" as the core is one of the most precious treasures left by our ancestors. This kind of culture is not only the basis for a nation to seek and establish environmental awareness from generation to generation, but also always plays a practical role. Infiltrate into people's way of life in the form of cultural factors, which provides people with a rational scale to deal with the relationship between man and nature. The continuation and development of Chinese civilization cannot be separated from the profound environmental culture of the Chinese nation. If a nation loses this cultural foundation, it will lose its way in dealing with the relationship with nature. Therefore, we must mobilize the whole society to pay attention to participation and form a strong cultural atmosphere to protect the environment. To create a cultural atmosphere to protect the environment, we must first update people's environmental concepts, correctly understand and handle the relationship between man and nature, development and environment, and let the broad masses of people realize that man is the product of the long-term development of nature and that man himself is a part of nature. The global environment is the wealth of all people (including modern people and future generations) and all living things. No one can ignore the stability and balance of the ecosystem for the benefit of local and small groups. Construction and development should protect the environment, conform to nature, respect the laws of nature, and change the values, ways of thinking and ways of production and life that go against nature. It is necessary to change the traditional concept of inexhaustible natural resources and replace it with new concepts of "limited resources" and "precious resources". It is necessary to replace the powerful natural view that man is the master of nature with the ecological natural view that man and nature live in harmony.
2. Establish and improve the environmental education system with China characteristics, strengthen news propaganda, and create a public opinion atmosphere conducive to the development of environmental protection. It is necessary to gradually establish a school environmental education system with the education department as the leading factor and the environmental department actively cooperating. Take various ways to infiltrate environmental education into all aspects of school education and teaching, and strive to improve the quality and effect of environmental education. And actively carry out activities to create green schools. It is necessary to strengthen environmental education and training for leading cadres. Attach importance to environmental education for farmers and carry out environmental publicity and education activities in rural areas. Accordingly, newspapers, radio, television and other news media should also play a role, form a multi-level environmental education pattern, and instill the concept of human dependence on the environment into the public; This paper introduces the present situation of the environment and the trend of environmental changes caused by human activities, describes the human tragedy caused by environmental deterioration, and reveals that the uncontrolled behavior of human beings will lead to their own destruction. Through publicity, the sense of environmental crisis is deeply implanted in the public's mind, which stimulates the public's sense of responsibility and participation, and strengthens environmental awareness from education to a habit, thus making environmental participation a conscious behavior. At the same time, carefully plan and organize important environmental commemorative activities such as "World Environment Day", carry out creative, influential and effective large-scale activities such as "Environmental Publicity Week" and "Environmental Culture Festival", carry out extensive and in-depth mobilization, and encourage citizens to actively participate. Create a cultural atmosphere to protect the environment.
3. Starting from the local reality, mobilize the masses to formulate environmental behavior norms, and strive to infiltrate the awareness and actions of protecting the environment, rationally utilizing and saving resources into citizens' daily lives. Advocate living habits, consumption concepts and environmental values that conform to green civilization. It is necessary to gradually incorporate the activities of creating "green communities" into the overall goal of civilized communities and spiritual civilization construction.
4. Expand environmental rights and raise environmental awareness. Improving environmental awareness by expanding environmental rights and interests is to link the process of improving people's environmental awareness with protecting and improving people's vital interests. By giving people more and greater environmental rights and interests, we can enhance our understanding, concern and action on environmental issues. Expanding environmental rights and interests mainly includes: ① environmental supervision right. The right of environmental supervision is the right given to social organizations and individual citizens to supervise the behavior of destroying the environment through legal provisions. Article 6 of the Environmental Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "All units and individuals have the obligation to protect the environment and have the right to report and accuse units and individuals that pollute and destroy the environment." Although the above-mentioned laws involve some contents of environmental rights to a certain extent, they do not have the nature of any substantive rights, and victims cannot directly invoke the above provisions to specifically request judicial protection. This has greatly dampened citizens' enthusiasm to fight against environmental hazards, and also made citizens' participation in environmental management lose a solid legal guarantee. Therefore, the right of citizens to enjoy sunshine, ventilation, tranquility, clean water and clean air should be stipulated in the basic environmental law. If one of the above rights of citizens is endangered, they can take up legal weapons to safeguard their rights, making public participation in environmental protection a possible and feasible goal, thus improving citizens' awareness of environmental participation. ② Expand the public's right to know about the environment. The right to know about the environment is the right of citizens and social organizations to collect, know and understand information related to environmental issues and policies. Environmental information includes the following bulletins on environmental conditions, weekly (daily) reports on air quality, and pollutant discharge data of polluting enterprises. At present, our citizens' right to know about the environment has been expanded, such as frequent sandstorms in northern China in recent years, urban air quality announced on TV, and the exposure of some polluting enterprises. But there is still a big gap in the right to know about the environment. It is manifested in citizens' lack of information about the environmental behavior of a single enterprise. In China, there is no corporate environmental information disclosure system. Although enterprises have the obligation to declare and register sewage discharge to the government, there is no law that these declaration information must be made public. The citizens are blind to these enterprises. At the same time, citizens' demand for high-quality environmental information cannot be effectively met. The public not only wants to know what the environmental conditions are, but also wants to know the analysis conclusions related to these conditions, and also wants to know the reasons, but the information is insufficient. In addition, citizens do not know enough about the government's process of implementing environmental policies and know little about the government's process of carrying out environmental protection work. The right to know about the environment is the basis of exercising the right to supervise the environment. Only by publishing information on environmental conditions and environmental protection work and expanding citizens' right to know about the environment can we provide necessary conditions for citizens to pay attention to environmental protection and participate in environmental supervision and consultation of major projects. In order to guide the public to actively participate in environmental protection public welfare activities, do good things and do practical things for environmental protection. The expansion of social environmental rights and interests is an important way to improve environmental awareness.
The concept of sustainable development itself is the result of compromise, which is full of contradictions between developed and developing countries in terms of conceptual interests and political level. As a backward developing country, China needs to guide the public to actively participate in environmental public welfare activities, do good deeds for environmental protection, and make the concept of sustainable development deeply rooted in people's hearts.