I have been in Australia for almost a month. More than a month ago, I was a second-tier city civil servant in China.
Civil servants can resign for a variety of reasons, wages do not increase, hidden benefits disappear, long-term can not be promoted, increased pressure on work. But the main reason for my resignation has nothing to do with the career of civil servant, but with the gray sky outside the window of the office.
That's the reason-fear of death.
When I wrote my resignation letter, social app Time line was full of jokes about haze, and the official accounts were busy with all kinds of haze survival guides.
At that time, my nose temporarily lost its breathing function for many days.
If I hadn't insisted on using windows's default desktop, I'd have forgotten what the blue sky and white clouds looked like.
Every time I want to take the children out to play, but turn to see that it seems floating in the magic fairyland urban buildings, and always flinching.
In fact, haze is only a visible worry, all kinds of invisible environmental pollution and food safety problems like invisible killer, but also always make me feel like pins and needles.
My daughter is the real victim of fake milk powder. When she was about two years old, she ate several cans of American milk powder purchased by Jingdong at China Resources supermarket, and was later confirmed by CCTV to be illegally modified and made known as imported milk powder from the Netherlands.
Shocking is that the quality supervisor, industrial and commercial discovery of problems 4 months after the milk powder was notified, removed from the shelves.
Fortunately, infants and toddlers who ate the formula did not have any health problems (at least for the time being). If the milk powder was really toxic, how many children would be harmed by it in the past four months?
I have also looked forward to a change in the climate, after all, the call for change has been heard every year. But I personally witnessed the blue algae outbreak in 2005, the fall of milk powder in 2008, the shrouded haze in 2013, and the failure of the vaccine in 2016, and I suddenly discovered that more than a decade had passed.
How many years can there be in life? How many times can a child have a childhood? Why do you have to live so long before you see the sun?
You may ask: everyone else has a good life, should eat, drink should drink, is you alone to be vigilant and far-sighted?
In fact, I have been thinking: why are most people still so calm when haze is so clearly visible (not including PM2.5 that is not visible to the naked eye)?
As soon as Chai's documentary came out, there were plenty of spurts, spurting her to the United States to have children and her data unreliable, but no one dared to deny the fact that haze really existed and was bad for our health.
In September 2015, < Nature > published a The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale, analysis of worldwide PM2.5 and ozone in relation to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRI), cerebrovascular disease (CEV),) The relationship between ischemic heart disease, (IHD), lung cancer, (LC), and premature mortality, with this chart:
The data in the table indicates:
Worldwide, air pollution killed 3.3 million people prematurely in 2010, with 1.35 million in China.
I know a foreign friend who has lived in my city for more than ten years. Not long after his recovery, he returned to Canada for a review. After his doctor saw his X-ray, he said, "you're a smoky lung." "but I haven't smoked in decades," he said in surprise.
Some experts have said that breathing the air in Beijing is equivalent to smoking forty cigarettes a day, I'm afraid that makes sense.
But most people don't seem to care. Commuters riding and walking on the street rarely wear masks and occasionally see some school students running in the morning of haze. We have all kinds of respiratory diseases around us, cancer patients seem to be more and more, but we still seem to disapprove of the small illness over, the serious disease will not occur on their own.
In fact, masks and air purifiers were popular for some time at the time of the haze outbreak, but before long, many people were determined to lose weight, three days of fishing and two days of suntanning, the "anti-haze artifact" soon left only the ability to accumulate ash.
At the end of the day, procrastination, which is common to all, will not seek change without a rush. Especially the country has just led the people to have a house and a car, compared with the life of the western developed countries, what is a bit of haze? I can't die at 01:30 anyway.
Everyone seems to be just having fun at the moment, waiting until the last day of summer vacation to catch up on their homework.
But I was really afraid to wait until that day, homework such as mountains, disease like mountain fall, no longer have the strength to return to heaven.
You can say I'm worried. But, if the sky does not fall, how can we swim in the clouds?