Since the reform and opening up, China's environment has gradually deteriorated, especially in recent years with the improvement of people's living standards, but also caused further damage to the environment. According to statistics in the last five years, China's environmental losses have amounted to 187.5 billion yuan, mainly consists of three parts:

Atmospheric pollution

Atmospheric pollution has posed a serious threat to China's economic construction. Total Suspended Particulate Matter (TSP), Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) and other health damage to our people is particularly serious, in 2004 the country because of the impact of atmospheric TSP and SO2 pollution caused by the loss of human health is estimated to reach 17.1 billion yuan.

Acid rain is also a "big killer". Acid rain is not only very damaging to crops and forests, but also very corrosive to building materials, thus causing harm to buildings. According to estimates, in 2004, China because of acid rain caused economic losses of up to 13 billion yuan.

Two, water pollution

In these three parts, water pollution caused the most huge economic losses. In the calculation does not take into account the losses caused by water pollution formed by geophysical reasons, and only calculates the economic losses caused by the pollution of water bodies caused by the waste generated and discharged by human production activities into the natural bodies of water, the figure reaches 142.89 billion yuan, accounting for 76.2% of the value of all economic losses caused by environmental pollution.

The industrial polluted water shortage is the most serious one among all the losses. 2004, the national industrial polluted water shortage caused direct industrial economic losses of 75 billion yuan, accounting for more than half of the losses caused by water pollution.

Three, solid waste and other pollution

In China, with the development of the economy, the daily generation of garbage is also increasing, but the recycling industry of garbage is declining. Especially some large cities, such as Shanghai, has fallen into the garbage surrounded. According to statistics, China's stockpile of garbage in the past years amounted to more than 6 billion tons, and nearly 20 cities have developed to the point that there is no suitable place to pile up garbage, thus leading to the deterioration of the ecological environment. Mixed garbage collection, not only increased in plastic, paper, metal and other waste products in the recycling price, reduce the value of organic matter can be used in composting resources, at the same time make a large number of hazardous substances such as batteries, waste oil, etc. into the garbage, increasing the difficulty of harmless garbage treatment, and in the garbage incineration treatment, will produce some toxic substances, such as toxicity than the KCN is also thousands of times stronger than the dioxin and some other highly toxic gases; Waste batteries and other waste batteries in mixed garbage contain heavy metal ions, which will pollute water bodies and soil, and eventually jeopardize the survival of human beings.

Currently, the environmental situation in China is still quite serious. Therefore we have to continue to protect the environment, especially in energy saving and emission reduction. At present, the situation facing the realization of energy conservation and emission reduction targets is also very serious. Since last year, the whole country has strengthened the work of energy conservation and emission reduction, the State Council issued a decision to strengthen energy conservation work, formulated a series of policies and measures to promote energy conservation and emission reduction, all regions and departments have made the work of the deployment of energy conservation and emission reduction work has made positive progress. However, last year, the country did not achieve the energy saving and pollution reduction targets set at the beginning of the year, increasing the difficulty of energy saving and emission reduction in the second four years of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan". More serious is that in the first quarter of this year, industry, especially high energy consumption, high pollution industry growth is too fast, accounting for nearly 70% of the national industrial energy consumption and sulfur dioxide emissions of electric power, iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, building materials, petroleum processing, chemical and other six industries, an increase of 20.6%, an acceleration of 6.6 percentage points. At the same time, all aspects of work are still not in place, the responsibility is not clear, the measures are not complementary, the policy is not perfect, the investment is not implemented, coordination is not effective and other issues. This situation, if not reversed in time, not only this year's energy saving and emission reduction work is difficult to make significant progress, "Eleventh Five-Year" energy saving and emission reduction will be difficult to achieve the overall goal.

China's rapid economic growth, the construction of great achievements, but also paid a huge price of resources and the environment, economic development and resources and environmental conflicts are becoming increasingly acute, the masses of environmental pollution problems reacted strongly. This situation is directly related to the irrational economic structure and sloppy growth. Do not speed up the adjustment of economic structure, change the mode of growth, resources can not support, the environment can not accommodate, the community can not afford, economic development is unsustainable. Only by adhering to conservation, clean development and safe development can we achieve sound and rapid economic development. At the same time, greenhouse gas emissions have caused global warming, which is of great concern to the international community. Further strengthening energy conservation and emission reduction is also an urgent need to deal with global climate change, and is a responsibility we should assume.

There are so many people who already have the awareness of energy saving and emission reduction, but feel that they have not contributed to energy saving and emission reduction. They feel that they have not invented an energy-saving device or researched a reagent to make plastics decompose quickly, and are a bit frustrated.

In fact, this kind of thinking is incorrect. We should think like this: I can not prevent people from indiscriminately cutting down the few forest resources, but I can save every piece of paper, I can inhibit their desire to change the furniture, and I can take care of flowers, plants and trees; I can not prevent factories, urban sewage pollution of rivers, lakes and oceans, but I can use non-phosphorus laundry detergent, and I can conserve water as much as possible; I can not prevent people from driving to work, but I can do I can't stop people from driving to work, but I can be a "public transportation foot", when the "bicycle hero", can take the **** transportation to work every day, can ride a bicycle to work every day; I can't stop the overwhelming white garbage polluting the environment, but I can buy food to lift up the vegetable basket, as far as possible to use less or not use the plastic bag, I can put the used batteries collection, I can use the battery to collect the water. I can collect used batteries and take them to the collection point, categorize the garbage at home, never throw away what can be recycled and reused, and never litter waste wherever I am.

I can't stop too many things from destroying the environment, but there are quite a few things I can do to protect the environment, and I can start with the small things, from my daily life, from what I can do. I think if everyone does this, then our living environment will be a little less polluted. For our own sake, for our children and grandchildren, for our ****have home, energy saving and emission reduction should become the conscious action of each of us.

Take action! As long as the small things in life to do energy saving and emission reduction, a better environment is on your side.