Protecting the environment is the responsibility of everyone

Text/Jiang Yilin

In the summer of 2022, we once again witnessed the heat waves that swept the world in different areas of the world. The European continent, the southeast coast of the United States, the Yangtze River Delta of China and the North China Plain ... are the most important economic centers in the world. Sichuan, with extremely rich hydropower resources, there was an electric shortage in Sichuan, because the dry water appeared in summer. The power company restricted the power supply because of helplessness, and the whole land of the whole piece seemed to melt in the rising heat. I was sad for the sanitation workers in Sichuan in the community. The emergence of this extreme weather is no longer accidental, and it shows that the huge and huge climate crisis is likely to become a reality.

△ The children who play in the park fountain

Whether it is this year's cool summer, the flood last year, or the incredible winter of the previous year, these phenomena cannot be neglected to put climate change in an unrelated position. More than forty degrees of high temperature in Europe, the spontaneous combustion of Australia's forests, and the heavy rain in New York's subway have been reminding us that the environment of the earth's homeland we live in is rapidly deteriorating.

I am fortunate that more and more people are beginning to feel anxious. But as an ordinary person, what can we do after anxiety?

I wonder if you have noticed it, a long sanitation worker team has been lined up on the street at four in the morning, waiting for the first overnight garbage to be transported to the nearby garbage factory. These sanitation workers need to transport the empty bucket back to the community before six:30. Moreover, in the words of Aunt Sun, she hopes that she "try not to make noise", because "everyone is working hard and don't want to wake everyone." They will ride a four -wheeled four -wheeled car that has been rusty and mottled at seven years, cleaning the trash can one by one around the community, until the garbage of a car is filled, and the garbage category that is not classified as specified is divided into divide Put in a barrel with different signs, and then loaded into the car in the local area and drive to the nearby garbage station. The process of dumping the garbage is equally long: about one meter -high trash can. If the five barrels are added together for half an hour, it takes at least an hour for ten barrels. If they catch up with the "morning and evening peaks" of garbage, they often need to wait for a few hours in the team to get the opportunity to dump the garbage. The most exaggerated time, Aunt Sun even waited from 7 am to noon to finish the first trip. In such a cycle, they need to complete at least four times a day, and they are busy until 10:30 in the evening to get off work. At 3 or 4 o'clock the next day, I will start the task of a new day again, 365 days a year, without weekends and holidays.

In the exchange with Aunt Sun, I can truly feel that she loves her work very much and is proud of her work. Similar to many other "manual work", the sanitation workers in the community are often "biography" between fellow villagers and even family members. The peers in several communities around them may be fellows. , Help each other, help each other when they get sick or take leave. Aunt Sun's family is far away from Sichuan. The youngest child is seven years old, but the couple can only go back once every two or three years. They can only ask the elderly at home to help take care of the children. Speaking of children, Aunt Sun showed a sweet smile, but in the words, she felt guilty that she could not accompany the child to grow up. She lives in the basement of the community and connects directly with the owner's garage. There is no toilet and windows. She goes out early and returns every day and silently serves the community. Although most of the community owners can't even pay attention to their existence. Compared with the lives of most of our people, their lives have a lot of simple hard work, but Aunt Sun has no complaints. The happiest thing she was the happiest was just to see that the garbage was dumped, and she was clean in the community. The saddest thing was that there were still many garbage that had not been treated, or they needed to wait in line at the garbage station for a long time. She is grateful to such a plain and simple life.

In reality, sanitation workers are the most critical forces to protect our community environment, guarding us for cleanliness of work and living areas, and their efforts have gradually become a means to make up for the mistakes made by most people. But should it really be like this?

What about us as a social individual? Is it reasonable that the "existence" of this "existence" based on the efforts of sanitation workers is reasonable? It is easier and simple to handle the living waste, throw the garbage, turn around, and forget. We walked all the way, but did not care about where the garbage went at all, and there was no concept how much waste would be produced every day every person, each community, and each company. Some people slowly no longer have the patience to classify the garbage, but they did not realize that those unsolved garbage did not disappear out of thin air, but that the sanitation workers spent additional time to handle them and classify them. Where is the time quiet, but someone will go forward for you. Those who are lazy to do nothing, sanitation workers make up for it; those mistakes we want to make, the earth is silently assumed the consequences for us.

But this process is one -way, and the tolerance of nature is limited. Behind more and more domestic garbage is the lack of suppression of consumer desire, accompanied by more carbon emissions that we have not realized; the consequences of lack of garbage classification consciousness are the mixing of dry and wet garbage brings more harmful gas emissions brings more harmful gas emissions And the greenhouse effect, and the gradual destruction of the environment. Frequent extreme weather is the consequences of the lifestyle that enters the so -called "modernization". Do not do it with evil, if we all think that environmental protection is a matter of others, do not start from ourselves, and after decades, may Increasing extreme climate environment. Until one day, when the Arctic region also appeared dozens of degrees of high temperature, what should we go from? △ Waste classification

The protection of the environment should be the responsibility of everyone. It requires a mentality of learning "contentment" and doing subtraction, and the consciousness starting from me.

The world's more than 7 billion people are eager to live a better and more convenient life. But the water rises, this pursuit is endless. Even if many sanitation workers are working hard, they cannot offset the impact of increasingly increasing consumption on the environment. The protection environment needs to start with each of us, starting from our daily life: the quality of the express carton is very good, you can completely remove it and use it repeatedly; the beverage is poured into the glass to drink, and the rest in the beverage bottle can be kept next time again. Drinking; the remaining foods with juice, can be treated in the kitchen and sorted wet garbage, etc., all of which are working hard. If we can have a contentment and no longer increase unnecessary garbage in order to pursue the so -called enjoyment; if we can be grateful for the hard work of sanitation workers, we will consciously divide the garbage; if we can learn Aunt Sun, from a simple life in a simple life Feeling happiness and satisfaction, dedication and love, and fulfilling the obligations of each citizen, maybe protecting the environment and the water is complete.

Protecting the environment is not a slogan, and it is not difficult. What you need is the courage of consciousness and the courage of action. As long as everyone learns to make some subtraction, reduce some unnecessary consumption, produce less garbage, and cherish the labor of others is a real contribution to the protection of the environment. (The author is a high school student affiliated to Renmin University of China)

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