Whenever Tibet is mentioned, people always think of blue skies, blue lakes, pure glaciers......
These unpolluted beauties of Tibet, which belong to Tibet, jump into the mind and automatically generate a natural ecological blockbuster. The flags of "I will go to Tibet once in a lifetime" and "I will drive 318 in this life" have stirred people's curiosity to find out.
Today, this ecological blockbuster may not be the same as you imagined Tibet.
A shocking "ecological show" is being staged all over the plateau.
Stretching for more than 5,000 kilometers, The 318 National Highway is the most beautiful landscape avenue in China that has been "enshrined", and it is also a place that attracts people to "drive in this life".
And the "plastic great wall" made of plastic bottles and cans has "earned enough eyeballs" on this road.
When a yak suddenly dies on the grassland and cuts through its belly that bulges like a hill, it is greeted by shocking plastic garbage. It takes 6 years for a yak to grow from childhood to adulthood, and the selling price of up to 10,000 yuan may be the most important income of the herders in a year, and once it dies suddenly, it is equivalent to destroying the main economic pillar of the herdsmen's family, and such tragedies occur from time to time in the homes of herders along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway.
This "Plastic Great Wall" will also be taken by the monsoon and tourists into Tibet to the Brahmaputra River Basin and the Coco Siri area, where people cannot see it, flowing into local water sources and residential areas, seriously affecting the living environment of local residents and animals and plants.
"Entering Tibet" is the pursuit of freedom, but also the need to maintain self-discipline.
According to incomplete statistics, in 2019 alone, nearly 40 million tourists left about 360 million garbage bottles, with a total weight of nearly 134,000 tons, and most of these garbage came from tourists and some freight vehicles in Tibet.
Behind the rows of numbers, people's "naivety" and "freedom" are caused, and when people enjoy the comfort of nature, they always ignore that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau does not have the ability to "purify themselves".
In the cold, windy environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, this garbage may not be able to be decomposed naturally for hundreds of years, and can only rely on volunteers to pick up and carry it little by little.
Under the towering and rugged terrain, some garbage hangs on the cliffs, can only be picked up with bare hands, a little careless will occur danger; sometimes the range of action to pick up garbage bending down and getting up is larger, it is likely to occur altitude sickness, cleaning operations are often difficult, only rely on manual cleaning is difficult to sustain.
The garbage that is difficult to clean up has become a hidden pain on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and how to protect the "last pure land on the earth" has become an important ecological issue at present.
"Guarding the third pole of the earth is to guard the common home of people" has never been a slogan.
In order to further prevent and control "white" pollution, people from all walks of life in Tibet, enterprises and public institutions, veteran party members and cadres voluntarily formed public welfare environmental protection organizations, and the Tibet Autonomous Region Department of Civil Affairs approved the establishment of the "Tibet Autonomous Region Association for the Prohibition of White Pollution", hoping that through their own practice, starting from every little thing around them, calling on the general public to develop a conscious behavior of "loving the environment, everyone has responsibility" and working together to protect this extremely pure land.
At the same time, we will carry out public welfare projects such as civilized tourism of the "Beauty Convention" and the protection of the third pole of the earth, and call on all tourists entering Tibet to protect the plateau environment. By 2021, the Beauty Convention project has mobilized volunteers to recycle 38 tons of tourist waste, mainly beverage bottles, totaling more than 1,457,800.
Only by protecting Tibet's ecological highlands can we jointly build a harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Environmental pollution is a "straight to the grave" trend, natural ecology is closely related to each of us, the seeds of ecological protection need to take root in the hearts of more people.
On the occasion of the 53rd World Earth Day, as the guardian of the global ecological civilization highland, the third pole of the earth will continue to attach importance to the ecological protection of Tibet, take the initiative to undertake the heavy responsibility of ecological environmental protection, increase the popularization of environmental protection knowledge, adhere to the construction of ecological civilization and the sustainable development of the regional economy, and strive to achieve harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
Cohesion for the sustainable development of Tibet's ecology - to protect the extremely pure ecological environment, to create the purest quality, to give the purest life, so that the world can share the pure environment and development fruits of Tibet.