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Agreement, and by actively assuming responsibilities and obligations in the implementation process of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. President Trump’s announcement of his intention to withdraw from the Paris
Agreement to circumvent the US’s environmental responsibilities, along with his
“de-globalization,” has created obstacles to the global response to climate change.
However, mitigating climate change is still a global consensus and strong political will. China should unswervingly join the cause and take the lead to make
greater contributions to handling global ecological security issues such as climate
change, biodiversity protection, and marine pollution management. Promoting global
sustainability goes hand in hand with building China’s ecological civilization.
First, China’s current contributions to the building of global ecological civilization involve improving its own environment and protecting global ecology at the
same time. Therefore, we need to put in more efforts than developed countries and
other developing nations. From the perspective of system theory, China is part of the
world, and without the security of the world’s members, there would be no security
for all countries—which explains why governing one’s environment is a contribution
to global ecological security. As the world’s largest developing country and industrial
power, China needs to first solve its own arduous environmental problem, adhere to
governance by all the people, adopt source prevention, and mitigate air pollution to
keep it clean for all beings; prevent and reduce water pollution to clean up polluted
waters; control and mitigate soil pollution to eliminate the source of poisoning in
the food chain; strengthen solid waste management and garbage disposal to promote
resource regeneration and increase the carrying capacity of the land. Second, China
should follow the trend of international sustainable development, continuously deepening the understanding of sustainable development, exploring correct development
ideas based on its specific national conditions. At home, we should promote economic
transformation, strengthen building an ecological civilization, and actively realize
the 2030 sustainable development goals; internationally, we should create a dialogue
mechanism, promote cooperation and exchanges, pursue green development, eliminate absolute poverty, build a global ecological governance system, and promote
global low-carbon transformation. From another perspective, we can say that leading
the world towards ecological civilization while maintaining global ecological security will be the most powerful counterattack to the fallacy of “China’s threat to environmental security” in the international arena. This will be the most fundamental
contributions made by China, a great socialist nation in the East, to sustainable
development for mankind.
J. Pan
Agreement, and by actively assuming responsibilities and obligations in the implementation process of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. President Trump’s announcement of his intention to withdraw from the Paris
Agreement to circumvent the US’s environmental responsibilities, along with his
“de-globalization,” has created obstacles to the global response to climate change.
However, mitigating climate change is still a global consensus and strong political will. China should unswervingly join the cause and take the lead to make
greater contributions to handling global ecological security issues such as climate
change, biodiversity protection, and marine pollution management. Promoting global
sustainability goes hand in hand with building China’s ecological civilization.
First, China’s current contributions to the building of global ecological civilization involve improving its own environment and protecting global ecology at the
same time. Therefore, we need to put in more efforts than developed countries and
other developing nations. From the perspective of system theory, China is part of the
world, and without the security of the world’s members, there would be no security
for all countries—which explains why governing one’s environment is a contribution
to global ecological security. As the world’s largest developing country and industrial
power, China needs to first solve its own arduous environmental problem, adhere to
governance by all the people, adopt source prevention, and mitigate air pollution to
keep it clean for all beings; prevent and reduce water pollution to clean up polluted
waters; control and mitigate soil pollution to eliminate the source of poisoning in
the food chain; strengthen solid waste management and garbage disposal to promote
resource regeneration and increase the carrying capacity of the land. Second, China
should follow the trend of international sustainable development, continuously deepening the understanding of sustainable development, exploring correct development
ideas based on its specific national conditions. At home, we should promote economic
transformation, strengthen building an ecological civilization, and actively realize
the 2030 sustainable development goals; internationally, we should create a dialogue
mechanism, promote cooperation and exchanges, pursue green development, eliminate absolute poverty, build a global ecological governance system, and promote
global low-carbon transformation. From another perspective, we can say that leading
the world towards ecological civilization while maintaining global ecological security will be the most powerful counterattack to the fallacy of “China’s threat to environmental security” in the international arena. This will be the most fundamental
contributions made by China, a great socialist nation in the East, to sustainable
development for mankind.