China's dilemma (Ji-Xuan)

China has industrialiazed in the past decades .Since then, they have been expanding their industries by building more factories to manufacture products which causes alot of air waste and discharging of harmful chemicals into the atmosphere. This has caused them to be faced with a problem we all know as pollution and global warming

With more factories and office buildings emit lots of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. this has led to many problems in the environment, for example, the major pollution in air in china recently with very high psi index. With  advancing technology, comes higher consumption of energy. This causes china  to be forced to find  cheaper sources of energy and in this case burning of fossil fuels are the cheapest and most accesible source of energy. This is very bad as burning fossil fuels lead to high emission of greenhouse gases which leads to global warming and pollution .China is  faced with the problem to choose economic growth or the environment . finding alternative sources of energy or ways to reduce greenhouse gases emission requires alot of research . This is the dilemma which china is facing 

China's dilemma (Shuning)

China has improved a lot in terms of industrialization and they have been expanding all these industries and exporting by building many new factories and burning more coal. They have a dilemma between pursuing high economic growth and escalating pollution due to the industrialisation because if they were to continue expanding their industries, they would have to burn lots of coals and fossil fuels which will emit a lot of carbon dioxide and many other greenhouse gases which contributes to air pollution and global warming.

Because of this air pollution, many lives are to be lost in China because of cancer. To expand their industries, China is sacrificing many lives and releasing harmful gases into the atmosphere. Global warming can cause prolonged droughts, or even floods and infrared radiation in the air and vegatations and plantations are ruined or poisioned, and many people eat these poisoned crops, which lead to severe food poisoning or even death.

Therefore, this is a very difficult decision. To further expand the industry but cause many deaths and unhealthy and bad air, or not to? If they don't, they would be lagging behind and be a less developed country but if they do, pollution and global warming would be worsened.

China's dilemma (Wen Shien)

China has grown tremendously in terms of industrialization since the 1990s. Since the, they have been expanding their industries by building more factories to manufacture product so be shipped to other countries and because of that, it has been faced with a very big problem.

With more factories and construction of buildings, china has been emitting a lot of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. And this has led to many problems to the environment, for example, the major haze issues in china recently and many more. With the more advancing technology, it also calls for a higher consumption of energy. With the higher demand for energy consumption, china has to find for a cheaper source of energy and burning of fossil fuels are the cheapest and most accessible source of energy. However, this also produces and emits a lot lf carbon dioxide which thus contributes to global warming. 

China is then faced with the dilemma as they have to choose whether economic growth or the environment is more important. As finding alternative energy or other ways to reduce greenhouse gases emission is not easy and requires lots of money. Thus I feelt hat china is faced with a big dilemma.

China's dilemma (Lim Jia Yi)

Task:  Reflect on the China's dilemma between pursuing high economic growth and escalating pollution due to the industrialization.

Since China opened up in 1978, China has grown and have led to a significant rise in pollution problems. This then affects their air quality.  

China have to improve themselves through industrialization. Rapid urbanisation brought dust from new housing and road building, while more traffic increased emissions. Slower wind speeds than usual in northern China were an additional contributing factor. This causes the air to be more polluted. 

This industrial pollution has made cancer China’s leading cause of death. China's industrialization have been polluting the environment to the extent that many of China's waters are mostly unfit for direct human use as they are seriously contaminated by the industrial discharges, and has caused a lot of deaths and incidents of serious respiratory illnesses. Close to 190 000 get sick every year, due to contaminated water and about 10% of the crops are poisoned with heavy metals.

It is a difficult decision for China. If they do not pursue higher economic growth, they will be lagging behind the other countries and will not be able to improve their country. However, if they do pursue higher economic growth, there would be an escalating pollution due to industralization. This pollution can cause health problems which indirectly causes the deaths of many. 

China's dilemma (Erlene)

China's rapid industralisation from 1990s onwards resulted in the construction of factories that require more energy, hence the burning of coal in the power plants increased carbon dioxide emission. This leads to enhanced greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere, and causes pollution.

China’s economic progress generated wealth and increased the standard of living, so demand for electricity increased as people buy more electrical products. Moreover, increasing population in China increased the consumption of electricity. Electrical appliances requires a lot of energy which comes from the burning of fossil fuels, which emits carbon dioxide and adds on to pollution.

China uses coal to generate electricity in their power plants which emits more carbon dioxide. Coal is much cheaper than renewable energy. China uses the money other countries spend on renewable energy to pursue higher economic growth. However, burning coal releases carbon dioxide, causing pollution.

China has a dilemma to reduce its carbon dioxide emission so as to reduce pollution or to continue pursuing a higher economic growth and industrialization.

Effects of One Child Policy

The One Child Policy which is also known as the family planning policy is the population control policy in China. There are many disadvantages and advantages of having this poilcy implemented:

Advantages:

-better standard of living for the families

-increased saving rates compared to a family with more children

-more resources for the development of the children

-increase in food supply

-reduces unemployment (more jobs available due to decrease in population)

Disadvantages:

- the one child policy has caused many families to prefer sons over daughters, thus resulting in a large number of abandoned baby girls, abortion and even killing them.

- some parents, instead of killing or abandoning their girl babies, offer them for legal or illegal adoption.  Some parents even sell the girls.

-because of the bad actions against girl babies, 114 boys are born for every 100 girls. Because of this imbalance, some men can’t find women to marry.  This has lead to kidnapping and sale of women for marriage.  It has also increased the number of prostitutes and the number of men who go to them, and the cases of sexual diseases

- with this policy, there will be more and more older people depending on the small amount of younger generation people to take care of them.

- with only one child, some parents may spoil them by giving them all that they want, which may result in them becoming spoilt and not wanting to support their family.