We Should Set the Plan To Solve the Environmental Pollution

Watching the news, you can see the news report about the abnormal weather. Last summer, in Russia, many people died and, in China, a CNG bus engine went off, because of the scorching heat. This winter, a stadium in the US was and Gangwon Province in Korea was damaged by heavy snow. Because of the abnormal weather, damages have been occurring one after another all over the world recently.

▲ Russia was damaged by Scorching heat.



These phenomena are related with the development of technology. The more we use fossil fuel and the more we enjoy material abundance, the more serious the environmental pollution becomes. We have already known the paradox structure that the earth is damaged while we are seeking for a comfortable life.

Of course, we are concerned about our environment. We made the Climatic Change Convention and planned to reduce the emission of green-house gases.

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming. The UNFCCC is an international environmental treaty with the goal of achieving "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."
The Protocol was initially adopted on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan and entered into force on 16 February 2005. As of July 2010, 191 states have signed and ratified the protocol.

- Kyoto Protocol, Wikipedia

However, the problem is that the protocol has no coercion. So the US withdrew U.S. support for the Kyoto Protocol and refused to submit it to Congress for ratification. Japan and Australia have not passed the law about the emission of green-house gases. Canada also said that they have no plan to carry out the protocol if America and China didn't show their responsible behavior.

▲ Carbon emissions from various global regions during the period 1800–2000.

(Source : Wikipedia)

These lukewarm attitudes of advanced nations will affect other countries. The Korean Government showed their effort by setting "Presidential Committee On Green Growth" and "Climate Change Center".However, Korean Businesses required that the government relax restrictions according to international stream.

It will be effective for a short time if advanced nations protect their industries. However, in the long-term view, I believe that they will destroy themselves, and moreover, all of us. The situation like the movie " The Day After Tomorrow" is now only a matter of times. International Society should consider this issue more cautiously for our future.

Written by Yoon Jeongwon