What can we do to reduce smog? Everyone has a responsibility

As winter approaches, smog weather is becoming more and more serious across the country, especially in Beijing, where people feel strongly that they are shrouded in smog and cannot breathe. To reduce smog, everyone from the government to every citizen should get involved.

1. The environmental protection department should have a clear attitude

"Escaping" from smog is not a joke. Faced with the "smog all around", almost everyone has this "little impulse" in their hearts. For example, every holiday, the first thing Beijing citizens want to do is to go on vacation to an oxygen bar with fresh air. However, due to the realities of life and considerations of work platforms and employment environments, although a few people have turned their "small impulse" to "escape" from the smog into big action, more people do not have this kind of carefree and decisiveness and choose to continue to stay in the smog. This also reflects the public's infinite expectations for the government to prevent and control smog. The environmental protection department must adopt an iron-fisted attitude towards pollution control, a drastic determination to cut off one's own arm, and a swift and resolute style of work to severely punish pollution and control haze.

2. Change “Life”

According to statistics, if we analyze the "culprits" that cause smog in cities, the contribution rate of motor vehicles is 22.2%, coal burning accounts for 16.7%, dust accounts for 16.3%, and industry accounts for 15.7%. It can be seen that urban lifestyles with dense populations and industrial development are the main causes of smog. “If one day, the basic conditions for human survival become an unattainable luxury, it will be too late for us to marvel at the heavy price paid by mankind in enjoying industrial civilization. Therefore, let us consider as soon as possible how we can correct our lives in such an environment.”

3. Start with me and start now

Faced with the increasingly severe smog weather, each of us should reflect, because each of us is inevitably the producer of particulate pollutants and also its "enjoyer".

"The smog problem is no longer just a policy issue related to the so-called 'big problems' of national industrial restructuring and energy conservation and emission reduction, but also a lifestyle issue related to the small details of each of our lives." "When we think we can close the doors and windows at home and turn on the air purifier to 'save ourselves', when we think we can wear masks when going out for self-defense, we must think about our ancestral teachings of the unity of man and nature, because ultimately you cannot leave this environment and be unscathed," she said.

"Start with me, start now." Hopefully, the severe weather that has swept across most of China will make this old-fashioned ending to the annual environmental protection topic no longer just a slogan, but a real practice in everyone's life.