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Text丨Cognitive history
Editor丨Cognitive history
China has recently released several alarming figures that are worrying.
The figures show that the world is experiencing a major disaster of unprecedented magnitude, and countries should remain on high alert. However, the earthquake was not a natural disaster, but caused by humans, and the spearhead was pointed at the United States.
China's National Meteorological Research Center recently released a set of data on global climate change, showing that temperatures have risen much faster than expected in recent decades.
Data show that the world's average temperature has risen by about 0.75°C in the past four decades, and the Arctic is rising at an alarming rate.
At the same time, extreme weather events worldwide are also increasing and increasing. In the past few decades, various natural disasters such as floods, droughts and typhoons have caused great loss of life and property to people around the world.
There is a popular saying recently: "The world is rags, but there are always people who stitch it up".
If there are people in this world who are trying to tinker, then this culprit that caused the earth to be riddled with holes, I believe that there may be a unified and clear answer in the hearts of human beings around the world.
That's right, that must be American hegemonism. The United States is centered on its own national interests, and then manipulates and interferes with the development of other countries through military, economic, cultural and other means.
The United States is currently the world's largest power, and its hegemonic behavior has not only caused many negative impacts and serious consequences to the world community, but also caused irreparable damage to the earth's ecological environment.
In recent years, with the warming of the climate and the decline of biodiversity, ecosystems such as the atmosphere and water bodies have received more and more attention, posing a great threat to human health.
The main reason for the above problems lies in the excessive consumption of resources, the emission of greenhouse gases, and the damage to the ecology of developed countries such as the United States.
First, the United States is the world's largest economic power, and it has an astonishing energy consumption and greenhouse effect. Statistics show that the United States is the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, higher than many developing countries.
The United States has been a high-consumption, high-emission economic growth for a long time, which has caused great damage to the world's environment.
However, the United States not only did not retreat, but withdrew from the Paris Agreement, a global agreement, which caused great setbacks to global environmental governance cooperation.
This is the only party to withdraw from the Paris Agreement so far, and the blatant "withdrawal" of the United States this time is actually just the tip of the iceberg.
The United States has abolished many environmental policies, delayed the implementation of international obligations, and failed to participate in multilateral environmental treaties in many fields, hindering the development of multilateral environmental governance.
Some international experts and scholars have unanimously said that this seriously affects the fairness, efficiency and effectiveness of international environmental governance, and is an important international issue at present, and it is also one of the hot issues in the current international environmental governance research.
It was the Trump administration that withdrew from the Paris Agreement, and the reason given by Trump at the time was simple, because he felt that these agreements did not bring benefits to the United States, but to other countries.
At the same time, for its own economic interests, the United States has wantonly plundered the natural resources of other countries, causing serious damage to the global ecological environment and biodiversity, and causing a large number of ecological disasters.
The hegemonism of the United States is most evident in the military aspect, and they have the most advanced weapons and military forces in the world.
Therefore, they will often pretend to be the world's police, intervene through political, military, military and military means, infringe on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries, and seriously interfere with the internal affairs of other countries.
According to 2017 data, since the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to launch the "war on terror", the US military has emitted more than 1.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases, nearly half of which are caused by war-related fuel consumption.
In 2019, the Brown University and Public Affairs Institute released a report on the environmental impact of the US military, which clearly stated that the US Department of Defense is the world's largest consumer of crude oil and the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
If you were to choose which organization poses the greatest danger to humanity on a global scale, there is no doubt that the U.S. armed forces, which have more than 5,000 military bases in the world, are number one.
U.S. military bases are almost all over the world
It has not only had an incalculable negative impact on the international situation and world peace, but also caused great trauma to the world's ecological environment.
Chesapeake Bay is the largest bay in the United States, home to nine U.S. military bases alone, and a large number of highly toxic pollutants have been detected in this waters.
This has caused irreversible pollution to the marine environment, the safety of residents, and the seafood industry in Dangdu. Including what happened in the past few days, the 8.24 Japanese practice of discharging contaminated water into the ocean is the same as the method of the United States.
Indian Marxist scholar Vijay Prashad once bluntly said at the UN climate conference: "The United States accounts for only 4.42% of the world's population, less than 5%, but they use 25% of the world's resources." ”
And the United States transferred manufacturing to China, which in turn sued China for causing the most carbon pollution.
Although it is true that China is now the country with the largest carbon emitter, the mainland's strategy of "low-carbon and energy conservation" has begun to bear fruit.
In addition, the total carbon emissions of various countries in historical records are twice that of the United States and China! More than any country in the world.
In recent years, U.S. oceanographers have found more than 2,000 barrels of DDT-containing trash in the waters of Southern California. According to scientists' estimates, the total amount of DDT in this batch of waste may be between 350-700 tons.
It should be known that DDT was once used as an agricultural pesticide, but because it is very persistent and difficult to decompose, it has a serious impact on most animals.
If animals in nature ingest a large amount of DDT and accumulate it in the body for a long time, it will seriously affect their nervous system and reproductive system.
The impact of the butterfly effect will also spread to other animals, even humans, through the food chain, which will seriously affect ecological balance and environmental pollution, so DDT has been banned in many countries.
Then David Valentine, an American oceanographer, began to track the polluted ocean for a long time.
Preliminary studies have found that the cancer rate of sea lions in this sea area is as high as about 25%, and David has repeatedly reported this situation to relevant US agencies, but it has not been taken seriously.
Then there is the food crisis, and now many countries around the world are facing the problem of lack of food, and the United States, as the world's largest economy, is the country that wastes the most food.
The shelf life of vegetables and fruits in American supermarkets is very short, as long as the prescribed consumption period has passed, regardless of whether it is good or bad, they are all discarded.
Fruits and vegetables discarded in the bin
According to data provided by the Food Footprint website, nearly half of the food wasted in the United States in a year is reedible.
The production of these foods produces huge carbon emissions, and when cleaning up the discarded food, it also produces a large amount of the greenhouse gas - methane, which only accelerates global warming.
Mountains of fruits and vegetables discarded every day in the United States
Not only is food wasted, but in water and electricity resources, Americans are also profligate, and the city is lit up all night late at night. Even when everyone is off work, the empty office building is still as bright as day.
The night in the United States is still as bright as day
Americans' chronic extravagance has also made them the world's largest resource consumer.
From war, waste of resources, dumping toxic substances into the sea, from air pollution to marine pollution, the United States, as a world power, not only has not played a good leading role, but also failed to shoulder its due obligations and responsibilities, but also repeatedly used a passive attitude to face environmental governance problems.
The hegemonic behavior of the United States has not only caused the international community to be riddled with holes, but also brought war and conflict to many countries, and in order to satisfy its own selfish interests, it has caused serious damage to the global economy and ecological environment.
Nowadays, the global climate problem is not optimistic, and a series of extreme weather such as heavy rain, hail, earthquake, tsunami, typhoon, volcanic eruption, and wildfire occur frequently, telling mankind that it is urgent to solve environmental problems.
The earth is our great home for survival, and if we wait for a major disaster to sweep the world, no country can stand alone or stand idly by.
The frequent "reversal" of the United States on the issue of global environmental governance not only does not conform to the wishes of its own people, but also directly harms the common interests of the people of the world and the future of mankind around the world.
It is hoped that the United States can abide by national laws as soon as possible, unite global forces, actively participate in cooperation, and work with other countries in the world to deal with global environmental governance, and not go further and further down the road of destroying the environment.