China is an Economic Giant in a World of Environmental Challenges

However, China accounts for 33% of the worlds Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly arising as a result of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, and the deforestation that occurs in its wake. China is also suffering from desertification, coastal reclamation and severe climate change as are result of their long time blasé attitude towards environmental issues. While the Chinese Government now do acknowledge that environmental oversight has occurred, strict censorship within China deprives outsiders of receiving the full story of the environmental calamity that is occurring within China. Citizens within China are becoming increasingly concerned with governmental policy that regards further unnecessary degradation of the environment. A retired party official revealed that there had been 50,000 environmental protests within China in 2012 alone. China has amended numerous government acts and implemented strict new regulations in an attempt to curb pollution and Greenhouse gas production. However, the problem China faces cannot be swept under the 'bureaucratic rug' so to speak. The problem rests with the lack of an alternative clean energy to the fossil fuels currently used to fuel China's resource hungry industry. China has implemented numerous 'real world' measures to reduce environmental impact. Perhaps the most well known of these projects is 'Green Wall of China', which is a 4,500 km green belt

With the climate crisis at a record peak, it is important to consider which groups are the most affected. Global waste trade is a prime example of environmental injustice that transcends national borders. For example, overconsumption of technology has led to China having the largest amount of global e-waste as it is an e-waste dumping site, most of the dumping being

The first source that is being used for research is the book, Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter. This source contains the necessary amount of information needed to answer the guiding questions. The author of this source provides detailed information about the topic of plastic pollution and poverty in China that are not only supported by statistics obtained by institutions, but from the actual experiences of the author as well. The first guiding research question, which questions the root of the problem of plastic pollution and poverty in China is addressed by the source. According to Minter, who spoke to the owner of a Chinese plastics business, came to the conclusion that, “No doubt, a lack of government regulation played a role,” (Minter).

Last year, china had an environmental crisis due to rapid growth of industrialization. This had become a serious threat to China as they had to use roughly 9% of its gross national income. The air

In Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter, in chapter 1: Making Soup, the author talks about how and where our trash ends up at. The author visits the Walmart-sized space Waste Management facility located in South Texas, which he describes as Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. He talks about how the conveyor belts separate the trash like papers, plastic bottles, cans, etc. Minter then talks about how all that trash ends up in countries like China for money. China buys our trash and uses it to produce new products from it, which they later sell it for money. Minter also mentioned why poor people are better at recycling compared to rich people. Junkyard Planet is an eye-opening and inspiring text for people including me who do not

Many know that China does not have the most positive background towards climate change, and being one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, something has to be done. Furthermore, their initiative to this negative title and better their carbon footprint is questionable. With a substantial population, countless factories, and unfathomable waste disposal, it may be difficult to regulate or attempt to improve their ecological standpoint; however, little efforts have been presented. Recently, China has addressed their impact on climate change and plan to make drastic measures in order to, literally, clean up their act; however, have they dug a hole too deep to get out of?

One of China’s best successes has in turn been one of its biggest downfalls. One of the main problems is China’s greatest success which has been its phenomenal economic growth. This is one of the main drivers of the current environmental problems that the country faces. Factories dump pollutants into the air and water. It is difficult to see the Chinese government making the significant sacrifices required to improve their environment if it means slowing down their economic growth.

Most of China’s geographical features are plateaus, plains, basins, foothills, and mountains. Rugged plateaus, foothills and mountains occupy nearly two-thirds of the land. The land is higher in the West and lower in the East like a three-step ladder. China is surrounded by 14 countries. Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia. Being bordered by so many continents makes for easy and fast trading and sales. Despite having all of this luscious lands and surroundings, China has one huge problem. It is the world’s largest source of carbon emissions. Some of the major cities fail to meet international health standards. Life expectancy on the north side of

China’s reported MSW generation has soared from 25.08 million tonnes to 158.05 million tonnes over the 1979–2010 period, with an annual growth rate of over 6% (National Bureau of Statistics, 2011), leading to the dilemma that almost two thirds of China’s cities have become ‘‘garbage-besieged cities’’ – a problem that is spreading to rural areas

The rapid economic growth in China has led to the destruction of forests, the pollution of water, and the continuous pollution of the air. With the dramatic increase in the population, building production to house the citizens must increase as well at a startling pace as the land fields decrease in order to make space. A decline in land leads to a lack of resources, putting the country into a state of panic. A surge in building production leads to an increase in carbon foot printing, adding to the massive amount of pollution in the environment already. Alternative

As a growing concern around the globe, pollution has become quite a problem. Albert and Xu (2016) advocate the view that throughout China’s economic rise, its GDP grew on average 10 percent each year for more than a decade. But China has soared at the expense of its environment and public health of its citizens. Albert and Xu (2016) further noted that China is currently the world’s largest source of carbon emissions as it was responsible for 27% of global commissions in 2014. China accounts for approximately half of global consumption of coal as the world’s largest coal producer. Coal has become a huge part of China’s energy source as it accounts for two-thirds and is largely to blame for the degradation of the air quality, especially in major cities. Albert and Xu (2016) points out the doubts of Chinese government commitment to reduce the usage of coal when in 2015, there has been an increase of 55% China’s coal power plant capacity, and the approval of 155 new coal-fired plants. China also admitted that they have been underreported its annual consumption since 2000 which tells us a lot of their terrible quality of air pollution (Albert & Xu, 2016).

Trash is a material that is wasted or disposed of the sources of human activities and natural results that do not have economic value. Garbage comes from households, farms, offices, companies, hospitals, markets, et cetera. Waste is divided into organic waste or wet waste like kitchen waste, restaurant waste, the remaining vegetables, and spices, including the rest of the fruit that can naturally decay. And inorganic waste or dry waste like metal samples, iron, tin, plastic, rubber bottle that cannot decay naturally.

According to history of China, water consumption, growing population and demand for higher living standards were increasing steadily since the 1950s, when industrial development of the country started. In theory that could lead to new economic era and growth of the country, but in practice that caused one of the most important environmental problems in China. First of all, the pollution of water resources in this country goes deep into history in the 1970s. According to Wang (1989), the situation hasn’t changed for the better and the rate of pollution increased rapidly. Even nowadays the government of China cannot tackle

The Life Cycle of Garbage normally begins in our respective homes. Our kitchen trash even can accumulate much volume of it. So we take the garbage bag out to our curbside trash container. The garbage man then comes to empty it.

As we know, China is a big country as well as a developing country. Developing countries need to develop quickly so that they can catch up with those developed ones; as a result, many enterprises in china keep running days and nights, which let out effluent continuously at the same time they gain profit. Another