I remember last summer, it was very hot, and my family and I "hid" at home and watched 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 went to the sofa and sat down. I asked my father curiously, "Dad, what did you do just now?" Dad said, "Nothing!" I don't believe it, so I put on my shoes, walked under the air conditioner and took a look at the air conditioner remote control. Ah, my father adjusted the air conditioner to 24 degrees Celsius. I said to my mother, "mom, please tell dad to turn off the air conditioner." If we turn off the air conditioner and turn on the electric fan, how much carbon emissions can be reduced! " But also saves energy for nature.
I remember another time, my mother and I were going to buy paper plates. We went to the supermarket in the evening because we needed it the next day. When I went out, my mother said to me, "Where shall I stop at the supermarket later?" I quickly said to my mother, "No, no! If you drive there, there is nowhere to stop. The most important thing is how much carbon will be emitted when driving there! " My mother listened to me and accompanied me to the supermarket.
Low-carbon life is just an attitude, not an ability. We should start with such small things as saving electricity, water, carbon, oil and solar terms. Low-carbon life is a green lifestyle we want to build. As long as we act, we can approach the low-carbon life and even reach the standard of low-carbon life.
Taomi water can be used to wash your face and hands, tea dregs can be dried to make tea pillows, traditional clockwork alarm clocks can be used to replace electronic alarm clocks, and electrical appliances can be easily unplugged ... These seemingly casual actions are all reducing carbon for the earth. Experts from the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said that "low-carbon life" is actually four elements of water saving, electricity saving, solar terms and recycling. As far as citizens' lives are concerned, they are all trivial matters.
Low-carbon life is not only related to environmental protection, resource conservation and other grand propositions. Even in personal life, there are many benefits-not only saving living expenses, but also beneficial to physical and mental health. For example, choose green travel modes such as cycling, walking and public transportation; For example, use less electricity, use less paper and save a drop of water; Another example is using reusable shopping bags and using green trees. ...
1) Thoughts on "Low-carbon Life"
Now cities, countries and even the whole world are vigorously promoting "low carbon". So why "low carbon"? The purpose is to protect the earth and let people live on it for a long time.
The "climate warming" that people are concerned about now is very serious environmental damage. Why is this? Because people burn fossil minerals to generate energy, or cut down forests and burn them, they produce a lot of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, and they also emit greenhouse gases through refrigerators, which leads to global warming.
In fact, the reasons for environmental deterioration are not limited to these. I also learned from the internet that an open freezer in a medium-sized supermarket consumes about 4 yuan a year. 80,000 kWh, equivalent to consuming standard coal 19 tons, emitting about 48 tons of carbon dioxide, and consuming about190,000 liters of clean water. How amazing this data is! In fact, we don't need to exaggerate the protection of the environment, we just need to lift a finger, such as buying goods with short transportation mileage, persisting in climbing stairs, riding a bike or walking to work and school … in short, anything can be done.
Let's take action to protect the environment and the earth on which we live!
(2) Low carbon life
Now everyone is talking about low-carbon life, but there are still many people who haven't done it. So what is a low-carbon life?
In fact, achieving low carbon is very simple, that is, using less electrical appliances. If possible, primitive and traditional methods can be used to replace what machines and electrical appliances do.
So how to realize a low-carbon life more comprehensively? It is best to do the following: First, watch less TV and surf the Internet. Read more books and go out to exercise more. This can not only protect your eyes, but also learn knowledge and exercise. How nice! Secondly, the use of water-saving shower heads can not only save water, but also reduce the carbon dioxide produced by ordinary three-minute hot water shower by half. Thirdly, changing the 45-minute exercise on the treadmill to jogging in the park can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by nearly one kilogram, not only saving electricity, but also breathing fresh air outside. It's killing two birds with one stone!
After listening to the above introduction, I believe you must have learned low-carbon knowledge! We should protect the environment and contribute to the protection of the earth.
(3) My low-carbon trip to Changsha
During the summer vacation, my family flew to Changsha and found that Changsha is an environmentally friendly and low-carbon city.
When I arrived in Changsha, I left the airport and took a taxi to my menstrual home. It is found that the roads in Changsha are clean, there is no garbage on the sidewalks next to them, and the air in Changsha is particularly fresh.
When we got to the menstrual home, my cousin came to pick us up. On the way, I asked my cousin, "Is there no prohibition in Changsha?" Cousin replied: "No, these are all electric cars. At this time, I thought to myself: No wonder the air here is so good. It turns out that an electric car is used here. Although electric vehicles are low-carbon and environmentally friendly, they have no sound when driving and are prone to traffic accidents. I almost got hit by an electric car several times.
On the second day in Changsha, we went to the Orange Island Scenic Area, which is located by the Xiangjiang River, where we saw the beautiful scenery, the statue of Chairman Mao and his poems. I feel beautiful here and the environment is well protected. The vehicles that tourists take are all electric and have a strong sense of environmental protection.
On the third day, we ended our tour in Changsha and took the high-speed train back to Guangzhou. The high-speed rail is very fast, with a top 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 emission of a person taking the high-speed rail is 33% of that of flying. Taking the high-speed rail is really environmentally friendly and fast. Therefore, trains and high-speed trains should be the first choice for traveling abroad and contribute to the protection of the earth.
(4) Environmental changes before and after the Asian Games
The Asian Games will be held soon. 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, "Bus Rapid Transit" and environmental protection bicycle station make me feel the biggest change.
"BRT" is the full name of "Bus Express". The station is fully equipped with sun visors, spray fans and seats. This bus is brand-new too. The bus in "BRT" takes the bus-only route, which is much faster than before and convenient for people to travel. BRT is also very affordable. You only need 2 yuan money to take a bus unilaterally, and you can transfer in the same direction for free. Public transportation is environmentally friendly and low-carbon. If people travel by bus, the exhaust emissions of cars will be greatly reduced, and the environment in Guangzhou will become better.
The environmental protection bicycle station is gradually emerging in Guangzhou, so what is its function? It makes people pay attention to low-carbon life, and people can rent bicycles. Some people go to work by bike if they are close to their place of work. If it is far away, you can ride a bike to the bus station or subway station, which is much lower carbon than driving your own private car to work.
With these environmental protection measures, the air in Guangzhou is much better than before. I believe that Guangzhou will definitely host the Asian Games, and I hope that the environment in Guangzhou will be better in the future.
The so-called "low-carbon life". Is to minimize the energy consumed in daily life and work and rest, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Low-carbon life is a life attitude of ordinary people. Low-carbon life poster
It has also become a new way for people to push the trend. This gives us a question, whether we are willing to work with you to create a low-carbon life. We should actively advocate and practice a low-carbon life, pay attention to saving electricity, saving solar terms and turning off the lights for an hour ... from these small things. In addition to planting trees, some people buy goods with short transportation mileage. Some people insist on climbing stairs in various ways, some of which are interesting and some of which are inevitably troublesome.
carbon dioxide
However, people who care about global warming actually regard reducing carbon dioxide as one of the important ways to change their lifestyle to a low-carbon lifestyle, that is, to get rid of the hobby of "convenient consumption" at the expense of high energy consumption. Convenience is a universal value in modern commercial marketing and consumer life. Many convenient consumption methods are inadvertently wasting huge energy. For example, according to the estimation of refrigeration technology experts, 70% of the electricity consumption of supermarkets is used for freezers, while the electricity consumption of open freezers is 20% higher than that of glass door freezers. Based on this calculation, an open freezer in a medium-sized supermarket consumes about 4% more than a year. 80,000 kWh, equivalent to consuming about 19 tons of standard coal, emitting about 48 tons of carbon dioxide and consuming about190,000 liters of clean water. There are about 800 large and medium-sized supermarkets and 6000 supermarket convenience stores in Shanghai. If glass door freezers are widely used in large and medium-sized supermarkets, customers can save about 452 10000 kWh a year, which is equivalent to saving about 1. 80,000 tons of standard coal, reducing emissions by about 4. Fifty thousand tons of carbon dioxide. In China, the annual per capita carbon dioxide emissions are 2. 7 tons, but even if a white-collar worker in a city only has 40 square meters of living space, he still needs 1. Take the 6L bus after work and fly 12 times a year, and the carbon emission will also be 26 1 1 kg. From this point of view, energy conservation and emission reduction is imperative. If environmental protection concepts such as protecting the environment, protecting animals and saving energy have become the code of conduct, then low-carbon life is a green lifestyle that we urgently need to establish. Although "low-carbon life" is a new concept, it is an old problem of sustainable development in the world, which reflects the concern about the future brought about by climate change, and the world is increasingly aware of this problem. Climate problems such as global warming make human beings have to consider the current ecological environment.
Personal consciousness
Humans realize that excessive carbon emissions in the process of production and consumption are one of the important factors that cause climate problems, so to reduce carbon emissions, some consumption and production activities should be optimized and restrained accordingly. Although some scholars still have different views on the causes of climate change, the concept of "low-carbon life" at least conforms to the prudent principle of "preparing for a rainy day" and the psychology and ideal of pursuing perfection, so "believing what is there rather than believing what is not" leads a low-carbon life.
The concept of "low-carbon life" has been gradually accepted by countries all over the world. The emergence of a low-carbon life not only tells people what you can do to reduce carbon, but also tells people what you can do. When this lifestyle gradually rises, people begin to care, have I done anything to reduce carbon today? In Badaling, Beijing, a carbon sink forest farm has begun to take shape.
Forestry carbon sink
If you want to offset your carbon emissions, you can come here to buy carbon sinks or plant trees. Forestry carbon sequestration is realized through afforestation, forest management and vegetation restoration. 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. Fungi and bacteria in the soil decompose organic matter, thus producing material circulation, which can reduce carbon dioxide in the air for low carbon. The idea of buying carbon sinks is more popular than driving less and turning on the air conditioner. At present, the main measures to slow down climate warming are to reduce emissions and increase foreign exchange. Compared with emission reduction measures, forestry carbon sequestration measures have become an important means to slow down climate warming because of their low cost, multiple benefits and operability. The core content of low-carbon life is low pollution, low consumption, low emission and more economy.
The earth is our home, our mother and our indispensable support. So we should cherish the earth and cherish every resource of the earth.
Think about the earth before, so beautiful and rich. Like her mother, she constantly provides various resources for human survival. At present, natural disasters such as hurricanes, snowstorms, floods, etc. Pollution caused by improper environmental protection is everywhere ... bringing endless pain and loss to people all over the world.
I remember reading an article describing Saite Caidas Falls. It turned out to be so magnificent that the raging river roared down the cliff, spewing out and rushing thousands of miles. It was once the pride of the people of Brazil and Paraguay. Now, it withered and withered, just like a dying old man. Soon, it will disappear completely. The recent severe drought in southwest China is even more shocking. "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world", but now most of the riverbed of the Lijiang River has been exposed, and the beautiful scenery of the past has long since ceased to exist. Similarly, Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou has shrunk to about a quarter of the same period last year; Due to drought and water shortage, all crops such as wheat and corn have been harvested in a town in Mile County, Yunnan Province, and people will face the danger of food shortage; Even, in the disaster area of Yunnan, a ton of river water has been sold to 50 yuan.
After reading these, I was deeply shocked. It is not only the sorrow of the people in the disaster area, but also the contempt for human selfishness. Think about it, people are desperate to cut down trees for their own interests, causing a lot of soil erosion on the earth. For example, in order to obtain wood and expand cultivated land, some countries in Asia destroy and clear forests. In the short period of 20 years from 1970 to 1990, the forest area in India has decreased by 40%, which led to the intensification of floods and droughts in India. Since the 1940s, African forests have been cut down by nearly 50%. With the continuous reduction of forests, the continuous spread of deserts and the ravages of drought, hundreds of millions of people in Africa are threatened by hunger and water shortage. The tropical rain forest of Amazon River in South America, the largest basin in the world, is called "the treasure house of mankind". The Amazon River and its drainage area exceed 7.05 million square kilometers. Now, the area of tropical rain forest is decreasing sharply. Once the tropical rain forest in Amazon basin is destroyed, it will make mankind face great disaster. Many resources needed by human beings could have been regenerated and contributed to human beings for a long time, but ruthless human beings destroyed them, causing a series of ecological disasters.
Finally, the harsh facts awakened people's conscience to protect the earth. People began to take action to protect our beautiful mother earth, increase green vegetation as much as possible and reduce deforestation. All countries recognize the importance of environmental protection, and the 2009 Copenhagen World Climate Conference fully reflected this knowledge of environmental protection.
Here, I appeal, let's work together, love our mother earth from scratch, refuse pollution, protect the ecological environment, make the land from barren to rich, make the beautiful scenery of the earth reappear, and make human beings no longer suffer and suffer!