How to see the low-carbon life?

The "two sessions" are still in progress, in the two sessions concerned about the hot keywords, "low carbon" is obviously extremely eye-catching. A few days ago, the media reported that Proposition 1 ignited low-carbon enthusiasm.

Even the recent failure of Sichuan Tengzhong's acquisition of Hummer has been criticized as a victory for low-carbon lifestyles. This is not a few days ago, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), former Vice Minister of Commerce Zhang Zhigang, in an interview with reporters also said, "I think Tengzhong acquisition of Hummer failed is a good thing!" Products with high energy consumption and bad prospects should not be introduced into China.

For example, at the opening of the two sessions this year, Pu Cunxin, a member of the committee, reported to the organizing committee on a bicycle, attracting media attention. As people say, it's not about environmental protection or low carbon, it's just a part of the CPPCC membership that should have been abided by. It shows that at least he knows in his heart that he will try to cause as little trouble to people's lives as he can.

The label "low-carbon" seems to be plastered all over the place. However, ask yourself, our concept of low carbon, is not always a little hazy and vague, and even some specious ideas? We will have a generalized view that the benefits of low carbon are self-evident, but this is really easy to know and difficult to implement, and it is not possible to curb housing prices, promote employment and promote health care reform, as can give people immediate benefits. So there is even a view that low carbon is a more expensive thing to do, and that there is a definite contradiction between it and the beautiful GDP we are winning.

Frankly, this is surely a misconception. A low-carbon economy is not necessarily more expensive than a high-carbon one. And the development of a low-carbon economy can be accomplished entirely by market mechanisms, one principle being to make clean energy cheaper and energy-intensive energy more expensive and less cost-effective to use.

Of course, now mention low-carbon, can not be bypassed not long ago the end of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, although this meeting failed to reach a broad **** knowledge, only reluctantly adopted a non-legally binding agreement. But people's attention to the "low-carbon economy" of production and lifestyle, but the valuable legacy left by this meeting.

Fundamentally, the idea of a "low-carbon economy" reflects people's anxiety and concern about the future of the human living environment due to climate change. The idea is to replace the traditional way of production and living with a new way of production and living that is low in emissions and pollution. This economic model is another major progress of human society after agricultural and industrial civilization.

Environmental degradation, no country and no one can be alone, the responsibility can not be ignored, so as early as 1992 in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the transformation of traditional high-emission, high-pollution mode of production and lifestyle statements. After the Copenhagen Conference, it has even become the **** knowledge of the world's governments.

From this point of view, the technological innovation of low-carbon industry, low-carbon economic breakthroughs may become the main driving force of the new round of economic growth after the financial crisis, the first breakthrough countries may become the frontrunner. So it seems that the concept of low carbon is very far away from us. But since changing the traditional high-emission, high-pollution production and lifestyle has become a historical trend, and will benefit the future. So there is absolutely no reason why we should be strangers to low-carbon living.

People may not be interested in the specifics of China's "carbon reduction" commitments, but there are some figures we should be aware of. Can be used as a "life economics" of the required subjects, reference learning, after all, energy saving and emission reduction, promote low-carbon life, in addition to the country's macro-level "structural adjustment" and other masterstrokes, the micro level of life, but by each of us constitute and promote. Therefore, all the people must be physically active, vigorously practicing "low-carbon life". Low-carbon labeling must be embedded in everyone's lifestyle, become your daily habits.

Watching "2012", our feelings in addition to the audio-visual shock of computer stunts, combined with the main theme of this article, there should be one more thing, that is, the end of the day will not come, in fact, depends largely on you and me now the way of life.

The economics of low-carbon living tells us that taking the elevator up and down a floor 0.218 kilograms, watching TV for an hour 0.096 kilograms, eating a takeaway lunchbox 0.48 kilograms, throwing a kilogram of garbage 2.06 kilograms ...... we are increasing carbon dioxide emissions all the time.

At this point, it can be said that "low-carbon economy is the antidote to the planet". Low-carbon does not necessarily mean that you have to live an ascetic life. Low carbon is not the same as poverty. Low carbon simply requires us to put some constraints on our wasteful lifestyles.

An energy expert in the Copenhagen conference after the lament, the United States has entered the post-oil era, toward the direction of new energy, we and they than the difference between the two eras. But we are still like after the outbreak of the same "to get": for example, no matter how big or small cities, at night everywhere lights, comparable to the jeweled buildings, more than the image of the project, but they are beautifully called "brightening project". And the United States, Europe is not so showy.

This reflects a cultural difference in energy. Still, low carbon is not entirely a matter for the government, the people's low-carbon life is also indispensable. You can go online and look at the life of the "low carbon people", the new house decoration "paint, wood, floor tiles, energy-saving light bulbs, etc., can be energy-saving."

Other low-carbon details should also be remembered: cell phone batteries are fully charged to pull down, water dispensers should not be open all day and night, air conditioning fans alternately, electrical appliances with the time before the power, recycling water and so on. All of these should become a low-carbon culture that we consciously practice and integrate into our lives. Popular participation, personal energy saving, garbage classification, these are not trivial topics, because the low-carbon economy and low-carbon life, is a deep-rooted lifestyle shaping. (Editor: Dongxue)