The birth control policy helps China to protect its environment better

China has executed the birth control policy since 1970s'. Through these years the benefits of the birth control policy are taking place in China. One of the main benefits is that the policy helps China to protect its environment better. It is well known that desertification, industrial pollution and household garbage are all vital environmental issues. In fact, the essential cause of these problems is the increasing of population.

People need food to survive. To grow more crops and to raise more livestock, forests are being cut down and grasslands are degenerating. Desertification in northwest China becomes more serious day by day. Every spring, sand is blown up by wind and form sandstorms. Without the block of forests, sandstorms travel from northwest all the way to the east coast of China. People in this area suffer a lot from sandstorms. Furthermore, these sandstorms even indicate a kind of horrible change in climate.

The developments of industries are driven by the demand of marketing while the demand of marketing is the consumption of the population, so the increase of population stimulates all the industries including some nonstandard factories which participate a lot in the industrial pollution. The industrial waste endangers water, air and soil which are all colsely related to the survival of plants, animals and human beings.

Household garbage, which seems normal to us, is actually polluting China’s environment with an incredible quantity. In China, people use up 30 million disposable lunchboxes and 3 billion plastic bags per day. Perhaps people can still say that it is reasonable for a country with a population of 1.4 billion. However, it takes several years to decompose a disposable lunchbox naturally. More terribly, the environment needs hundreds of years to “digest” a plastic bag. By the day when a year 2008 plastic bag decomposes, probably the whole planet is already covered by plastic bags.

According to scientific statistics, if China did not execute the birth control policy, China’s population will be 400 million more than the real population by the year 2008. China successfully controls its population by the birth control policy, which saves land, reduces industrial and household waste, namely, protects its environment. In addition, through this policy, people in China are educated that to live a sustainable live but not to use up all the sources is the correct way to live hamoniously with our planet.

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A question about environment

Does China's birth control policy help China to protect its environment better? If yes, how does it help? If no, why does it not help?

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How does the birth control policy help China to protect its environment better?

The meaning of life

I always feel that the meaning of life is continuity. The continuity of life enables human to learn from the past, to make improvement and to pass knowledge and technique to the next generation. And this is how the world runs. Isaac Newton once said “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Without all the efforts that the predecessors made, it is impossible for him to make such extraordinary breakthroughs in physics and mathematics. Perhaps unlike Newton, what we can do is little and normal, like a drop in the sea of human history. However, in the long run, indeed these small drops structured our society. Furthermore, what we learnt and passed on is not only knowledge but also questions and dreams. Those are the impulses that always push our society forwards. We have been dreaming about flying to the sky for thousands of years. Step by step, we are making the dream come true. People live, people die. What is the end? But I think the end is not important. What really matters is the process. As a part of human continuity, we learn, we teach, we enjoy and we live a meaningful life.