Climate change and it’s bad effect is now a global issue. It brings a real threat to China’s ecosystem, economic development and social development. It’s true that China has experienced an astonishing transformation in its economic status over the past 30 years, but there are costs,

Now，china is the largest emitter of green house gases. Chinese people are suffering from the toxic smog mainly caused by the burning of coal. but It’s still hard for chinese to find a balance between development and environment, because in order to eliminate the poverty and strengthen the infrastructure china has to keep the developing pace. chinese are facing a dilemma.

The Current Situation
of climate change in china

SMOG

Today, in china, when people talk about climate change, the hottest topic
is the air pollution or smog. the burning of coal is the biggest factor contributing to this smoggy condition. And because of the smog Chinese people started to take the initiative to understand its underlying causes,
and further the climate change.

Voices

how the chinese talk
about climate change

In a long period of time, the Chinese people’s opinion about climate change is very superficial. But with the pollution problems getting serious, discussions have been raised on the internet, people start to have different opinions. some people are worried about the climate change itself, and some people are getting radical or even angry to the western accusations, and some people are still confused or misunderstand climate change as the weather change.

MISUNDERSTANDING

CONCERN

RESISTANCE

Our dog died because of climate change.

Traffic police: pay attention to weather changes and traffic information before the travel.

IELTS topics material: English vocabulary accumulation of climate.

Prevent the colds and note weather changes.

Chinese traditional medicine think that the nature and the human body are interlinked, so people should to change with the climate change in nature.

I feel so cold in this winter!

People who have Respiratory diseases, diabetes and Alzheimer's need to pay attention to climate change.

I do not believe in global warming since the 2008 snowstorm.

Whenever climate change, I can receive the father and mother full of love.

China developed smog weapons only for defense.

The climate change negotiation were initiated by two former Republican presidents, Reagan and George W. Bush.

China will lead the global warming governance.

China is making efforts for global climate change.

Chinese eat meat too much to lead global warming? so what, continue to eat.

We also fart to lead global warming.

China tells Trump that climate change is not a Chinese conspiracy.

The weather change has a noticeable effect on economic activity.

I hope to live a few more years with the climate change.

Farmers: weather changes lead to a decline in production.

E-commerce Express parcel waste lots of paper.

Artificial Intelligence can help people mitigate climate change.

we need to plant trees to protect the environment.

Opinion

leader

In the recent years, an interview about the relations between climate change and development has raised a hot debate on the social media，the journalist and the scientist on the interview represents two opposite opinion. To some extent, the journalist represents the voice of the environmentalists in china they think the environment should be the first. and the scientist represents another kind of voice which considering carbon emission as a basic human right, when we talk about climate change and development, we should always put the human rights on the first.

Environment first

“China should overcome all difficulties to implement the emission reduction program which is proposed in the World Conference on Climate Change.”

Human rights first

“Emission rights are fundamental human rights, we should develop a more equitable emission reduction program.”

What are they discussing about?

To see the emission

reduction programs

Discover the data behind

Carbon emissions per capita

in 2015

Data of some countries’

carbon dioxide emission

from 1970-2013

Choices

How china action

Facing the problem of climate change, chinese have to do a lots of choice. Someone think development shloud be priority, others hold the view that it is more important to protect the environment.Find the best way to resolve this contradition requires time, but now, China is trying to balance the relationship between them: strengthening international cooperation, investing a lot of money, developing the renewable energy, taking on reduction targets.

There is a series of environmental and climatic problems have caused Chinese vigorous argument. Resolve the problem of climate change and environment is a task without delay, but it seems that China is caught in a dilemma between development first or environment first. As time pass, we hope China will find a way out because China is not the first one and will not be the last one which face the problem of climate change.