History has shown us that Chinese authorities favor projects and endeavors that have long term impact.
Take for example, the Dujiangyan Irrigation system. Its an irrigation and flood control project of immense scale in 256 BC. They divided the river, carved the mountain before excavator and dynamite were invented. And yet the system is still useful today and it irrigates vast farmlands in Chengdu plain. It is the only project in history 2200 years ago that is still useful today. The dividends over the centuries were immeasurable by the boost of agricultural output in the surrounding areas.
There so many examples in Chinese history, that people took gigantic projects that would benefit future generations in centuries to come. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and more recently the Great Green Wall to slow or reverse desertification in north northwest China or the South to North water diversion projects. All of these projects took decades to complete.
Now, more or less, the Chinese authorities are occupied by the attacks instigated primarily by US. The trade wars, the tech war, and more recently blaming squarely China for the virus as if the 1.4B Chinese are responsible for this. We should take note that all of those attacks are politically motivated - some people wanted it to happen to have an agenda to gain political power. They make as much noise and non sense just to have an agenda. Those American politicians need to sell something for their voters. The cheapest crap understandable for an an average voter is to blame somebody for their misfortunes. So the american president and his cohorts, he blame China, he blame the Chinese president, he blame the WHO, he even blame the state governors, he blame the media, and recently he attacked Fauci. An who knows tomorrow he will blame black cats for bad luck. In short these are short term endeavors because politicians come and go.
Now to counter these, we Chinese should think more long term just like our ancestors did.
Fro short term thinkers, the most obvious way is to counter these attacks directly.
But for long term thinkers, there are far more very difficult problems the Chinese civilization is facing.
The most obvious is climate change. If China does not cut carbon emissions, there will be a good chance, the Himalayans glaciers will totally disappear. Think of the consequences if this will happen:
The Yangtze river, Yellow river, all its tributaries including that Dujiangyan will dry up.
Not even to mention other rivers outside China, the Mekong, the Ganges all of those depend on the Himalayan water run off.
If this will happen, this will be truly an apocalyptic event. Millions if not billions will die of hunger and famine.
These rivers are the reason why in the first place, China, India or Bangladesh have so much population.
The river water gives life.
There are more unimaginable consequences if the Himalayans glaciers will disappear. I just pointed out the most severe.
So it is more pressing now to address this looming problem. China should focus more into mitigating or even negating the effects of climate change. This endeavor will not only benefit the Chinese nation but the whole humanity itself.
1.) If China can totally get rid of gas vehicles in 3 to 4 years time, this will collapse the demand of foreign oil.
This will reduce the demand of US dollars too. As oil is bought in dollars. And there is little need to invest in oil infrastructure in disputed waters.
2.) If we can eliminate the coal power plants and switch more to renewables like wind, hydro and solar, that will eliminate need to import
coal in far flung places.
3.) China should start large scale carbon sequestration to take back the billions of CO2 released in the atmosphere during the China industrialization.
These may sound unrealistic and may take science fiction technology to realize. But if we dont do it China civilization cannot last for another 2000 years.
So we should take the long term approach just like what our ancestors did.
Take for example, the Dujiangyan Irrigation system. Its an irrigation and flood control project of immense scale in 256 BC. They divided the river, carved the mountain before excavator and dynamite were invented. And yet the system is still useful today and it irrigates vast farmlands in Chengdu plain. It is the only project in history 2200 years ago that is still useful today. The dividends over the centuries were immeasurable by the boost of agricultural output in the surrounding areas.
There so many examples in Chinese history, that people took gigantic projects that would benefit future generations in centuries to come. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and more recently the Great Green Wall to slow or reverse desertification in north northwest China or the South to North water diversion projects. All of these projects took decades to complete.
Now, more or less, the Chinese authorities are occupied by the attacks instigated primarily by US. The trade wars, the tech war, and more recently blaming squarely China for the virus as if the 1.4B Chinese are responsible for this. We should take note that all of those attacks are politically motivated - some people wanted it to happen to have an agenda to gain political power. They make as much noise and non sense just to have an agenda. Those American politicians need to sell something for their voters. The cheapest crap understandable for an an average voter is to blame somebody for their misfortunes. So the american president and his cohorts, he blame China, he blame the Chinese president, he blame the WHO, he even blame the state governors, he blame the media, and recently he attacked Fauci. An who knows tomorrow he will blame black cats for bad luck. In short these are short term endeavors because politicians come and go.
Now to counter these, we Chinese should think more long term just like our ancestors did.
Fro short term thinkers, the most obvious way is to counter these attacks directly.
But for long term thinkers, there are far more very difficult problems the Chinese civilization is facing.
The most obvious is climate change. If China does not cut carbon emissions, there will be a good chance, the Himalayans glaciers will totally disappear. Think of the consequences if this will happen:
The Yangtze river, Yellow river, all its tributaries including that Dujiangyan will dry up.
Not even to mention other rivers outside China, the Mekong, the Ganges all of those depend on the Himalayan water run off.
If this will happen, this will be truly an apocalyptic event. Millions if not billions will die of hunger and famine.
These rivers are the reason why in the first place, China, India or Bangladesh have so much population.
The river water gives life.
There are more unimaginable consequences if the Himalayans glaciers will disappear. I just pointed out the most severe.
So it is more pressing now to address this looming problem. China should focus more into mitigating or even negating the effects of climate change. This endeavor will not only benefit the Chinese nation but the whole humanity itself.
1.) If China can totally get rid of gas vehicles in 3 to 4 years time, this will collapse the demand of foreign oil.
This will reduce the demand of US dollars too. As oil is bought in dollars. And there is little need to invest in oil infrastructure in disputed waters.
2.) If we can eliminate the coal power plants and switch more to renewables like wind, hydro and solar, that will eliminate need to import
coal in far flung places.
3.) China should start large scale carbon sequestration to take back the billions of CO2 released in the atmosphere during the China industrialization.
These may sound unrealistic and may take science fiction technology to realize. But if we dont do it China civilization cannot last for another 2000 years.
So we should take the long term approach just like what our ancestors did.
