Control nature? Notes on the governance of heaven in Jin Dynasty
The heavy rain was sudden, severe and irresistible. "Drowned in a city short of water", in China, a big city with early warning and control measures for disasters, human error missed a few seconds or dozens of seconds, which made some citizens lose an opportunity.
The struggle for control with nature has a long history. In the face of the unbearable weight in life, what position does human beings stand in and what attitude should they adopt? Rob? Remodeling? Conquer? Use? Or-control? The relationship between man and nature has never been so simple.
Everything is inconclusive, but it is worth thinking about fundamentally. Everything is also worth digging and writing.
The story of mcphee, the author of Controlling Nature.
1983, a sailor on an oil tanker in the Gulf of Mexico suddenly wrote a letter to the author of John mcphee's New Yorker magazine. They did not know each other before. Andy Chase, a sailor, described the plain life of the American merchant fleet in his letter, and then said, "I know you don't care about the merchant fleet at all, but if you come to this ocean and join us, you will meet some straightforward guys, and you may want to write about it."
Mcphee has written about basketball players, geology and fruits before, with a wide range of interests and many readers. Later, he dropped in to see the sailors and heard his story about the crew.
He took notes. This note became an article "Looking for Ships" in The New Yorker, and then it became a book about the whole transportation system and transporters.
volcano
When I arrived in Haikou, I visited the Volcano Park and got close contact with this extinct volcano for the first time.
I am surprised that an American writer is willing to spend a lot of time studying volcanoes.
Geologists say that/kloc-0.0 million years is the smallest unit of their thinking. You must understand what this means ... in a hundred years, people will not read your works, which is not the case.
mud-rock flow
When a family encounters a mudslide, they immediately face the tension of disaster, just like the beginning of the movie.
The mechanism of debris flow formation is introduced in the middle, and finally the situation of this family is also introduced. At the last moment, the debris flow stopped. Fortunately, the neighbors found the distress call and they were saved. My heart is half over.
Whether writing about floods or mudslides is related to the lives of all kinds of people. If you think a book about natural disasters is about geography, it is too monotonous.
In flooded river basins, engineers are responsible for building dams to protect residents' safety. What is the life of these people? Mcphee wrote:
"Almost everyone wants to pour the health team. For example, farmers want to reduce water consumption, but fishermen want more water. "
Even fishermen find it difficult to tell the pros and cons of the debate;
"The crayfish catcher said,' Put more water, the water level is too low.'
But the captors of new prawns don't want this. Low water level is good for them.
People in the shipping industry said,' The water level is too low. If there is less water, the river will have to be dredged.'
The municipal department also said,' Keep the water level high, otherwise it will increase the risk of seawater intrusion.'
On July 2 1, experts from China Meteorological Bureau said at the press conference that extreme rainstorm and extreme high temperature are still problems facing the world, and this extreme weather.
Behind science is climate change. With the impact of human activities on the global climate, the scope of climate crisis is getting bigger and bigger and more serious. We are experiencing a series of disastrous weather and climate events, such as heat wave, flood, drought, forest fire and sea level rise.
The aim of carbon dioxide emission peak and carbon neutrality is to reduce the negative impact of human activities on climate change, which is the mainstream understanding at present.
At the peak of carbon dioxide emissions, carbon dioxide emissions stopped growing, reached a peak, and then gradually decreased. Carbon neutrality means that the man-made removal and emission of carbon dioxide cancel each other out in a certain period of time.
Simply put, carbon neutrality is man-made carbon emission ≤ man-made carbon removal.
According to the definition of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), man-made emissions are carbon dioxide emissions caused by human activities, including emissions from fossil fuel combustion, industrial processes, agriculture and land use activities. Artificial removal is the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by human beings, including afforestation to increase carbon absorption and carbon capture.
As far as human beings are concerned, no matter how advanced technology is, it is impossible to completely "control nature". The so-called "controlling nature" is just controlling yourself-doing what you should do and trying to live in harmony with nature. Being more rational, conscious and self-disciplined may be the lifestyle that modern people should have.
Every major decision on controlling nature is a struggle between different interest groups and the ultimate balance.