Environment and Health：Consumption Climate Change

Consumption Climate Change

The pandemic of the novel coronavirus makes everyone to rediscover the power of Mother Nature. In fact, as the impact brought by climate change becomes bigger, extreme weather conditions around the world have been worsening. Typhoons, rainstorms, heat waves, droughts, hill fires or spreading of communicable diseases, are all great threats to our life. To alleviate the impact of climate change, reduction of carbon emission is of the utmost importance, and promotion of other measures to reduce emission such as energy saving and reduction of deforestation should not be delayed. Besides, our continuous production of refuse is in fact one of the reasons exacerbating the emission of greenhouse gases.

The emergence of consumerism since the 1980’s brings about the issue of over-consumption in Hong Kong. Consequently, a substantially increased amount of refuse is generated and the extent of which is much greater than that of the population. To achieve waste reduction, apart from the conventional ways to handle refuse, which are “recycling, incineration, landfilling”, a brand new direction will be wasting less and reusing. If everyone goes an extra mile and takes action to change their existing habits in daily life, we will be able to waste less and avoid producing refuse in various aspects relating to clothing, food, accommodation and transport.

Climate change may be a warning for us to reconsider our lifestyle.