Yih Jie:
It is very important for China to improve their economy. With a better economy, the people's lives will be better. However due to the industrialisation, pollution increases. They may have a better life but at the same time suffer living in a polluted environment. Dr Guy McPherson said " If you really think the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money." Therefore I feel that although economy growth is important, the environment is equally important.
Eugene:
China's dilemma on whether to continue industrializing is understandable as China might want to improve their economy to make their country richer, however if that causes too much pollution especially when they have a large population it would provide to lots and lots of damage to the Earth causing to speed up global warming. However, I believe they can snap out of this dilemma if they understand the way to go about it by investing money on renewable sources of energy especially with the abundance of land they have. By doing so, they can improve their economy and at the same time cover their extra pollution by using renewable sources of energy. I think if they can invest in renewable sources of energy it would be helping their economy improve too as less fossil fuels would have to be bought and taxes can be reduced thus the people in the country would be happy too.
Si Min :
While China is pursuing for a higher economic, the country start to have more and more pollution problems as they want to improve their economy and let their citizens have a better standard of living. However, I think that they can slower down the pollution by investing on renewable energy.Then they can lessen their damage to the environment and improve their economy at the same time. ITS A WIN-WIN SITUATION!
Wen Qing:
There was a time, as China began opening to the world in the early 1980s, when the sign of success was for a family to have a bicycle and electric light. The streets of Beijing, the country's capital, teemed with cyclists. Few cars filled the wide avenues. Hazy days meant winter winds had blown desert sands into the skies over the capital.
Today, those same streets are jammed with the new sign of China's upwardly mobile middle class: automobiles. Beijing has 20 million residents, five million cars, and a huge pollution problem. And the thick soup that obscures the sun is man-made.
Power plants burn coal to produce electricity. Cars pump their fumes into the air. And, in nearby Heibei province, steel mills add to the toxic soup that settles over the Chinese capital, particularly in winter.
Pollution in china is getting worse, however, China is going through industrialization, making it very difficult for them to conserve the environment while rapidly developing themselves. Even though China is going through urbanization, they do still try their best to also save the environment. After researches on the Internet, I found out that china held alot of projects which aims are to protect the environment. These projects reduces some of the amount of greenhouse gases produced into the atmosphere, but it's not enough to prevent hazy days in China.
I feel that china needs to put more emphasis to their people about how important it is to protect the earth. That way, the Chinese who understands will try their best to save the environment (e.g. Installing solar panels)and at the same time, china will also be able to develop. I also think that it will be better if China slows down their economic growth and focus more on protecting the environment. That way, pollution will decrease and at the same time China can still develop.
Mingyi :
There is a need for china to industrialize but at the same time, the negative effects of industrializing and urbanizing is the increased effects of global warming and accelerated rate of pollution to the environment. As China's economy is improving, the number of factories in China and the number of automobiles on the roads are constantly increasing. Although this is a sign of China's economy improving, it can produce a lot of harmful greenhouse gases that will worsen the rate of global warming. I personally feel that China can make full use of their abundance of land to build wind turbines or dams that are sources of renewable energy and thus reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced
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