My last essay will revolve around the conspiracy theories of the virus in China and the United States. I will select some examples to support my point of view. For example, China has done a good job in epidemic prevention and does not need to bear unreasonable accusations and compensation claims from the United States. Some examples will reflect that the United States is the country that really releases the virus, but I will also choose other evidence to demonstrate that the United States will not intentionally do it. The most serious mistake of the United States is that it does not control the spread of the virus in time, and it will unintentionally become a group Immunization practitioners. Group immunization was proposed by the United Kingdom, but the United Kingdom is also actively fighting with coronavirus. Various leaders in the United States always publish some overly optimistic false news, which ultimately causes the country to lose the most effective rescue time.
Find your Op-Ed
https://www.politico.eu/article/biological-chernobyl-how-chinas-secrecy-fueled-us-coronavirus-suspicions/
This article is the main source of inspiration for essay3. Recently, I have been paying close attention to various news about COVID-19, among which there are also constant disputes between China and the United States over the origin of the virus. In fact, there are many similar articles, and I am actually very tired of reading articles in this topic. Countries blame each other for their own interests, and they have triggered various conspiracy theories. I don’t think China will deliberately release the virus because China has also suffered from social order and economic development, and thousands of Chinese have lost their lives. I also don’t think that the United States will deliberately release the virus, because from the current situation, the United States has become the world’s most serious country with the spread of COVID-19. Governments or laboratories cannot damage the lives of citizens for whatever reason. However, the United States keeps accusing China and fail to contribute to the mitigation of the epidemic, and even caused the coronavirus in the US to run out of control. This makes me very angry, I am curious why politics is higher than life? If it is to shirk responsibility for re-election, it is really shameless.
The “Grist op-ed Reading Reaction” post-Yuchen
Although the climate problem may cause greater damage to humans than the current COVID-19 crisis, COVID-19 is most directly causing human illness and death. This is currently unbearable for humans. Compared with infectious diseases, the negative impact of climate problems has a lag, although many people already have environmental awareness and call on people around to take action to mitigate climate change. However, there are still some people who will never act until climate issues directly affect their quality of life and income. Just like the Australian fire and the melting of glaciers mentioned in the article. Will this immediately have a direct impact on residents who are not living in the poles or are not Australia? The truth is not. The lag of climate change makes people feel no urgency to bear the consequences. Therefore, it cannot be valued and taken by humans all over the world like an infectious disease.
Yuchen’s sources on Geographical rules of the Anthropocene
- Source 1：
– The Cataclysmic Break That (Maybe) Occurred in 1950
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/great-debate-over-when-anthropocene-started/587194/
-The beginning of the Anthropocene has not always had an accurate time boundary. This article combines the anthropocene and geology to discuss the characteristics of the beginning.
- Source 2：
-What Would Happen If Humans Suddenly Disappeared?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kibpn9UTGzA&t=54s
-Aftermath.Population.Zero
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av1767851/
-This video summarizes the best part of the 2010 National Geographic documentary “Aftermath.Population.Zero”. I was very surprised by the rhetoric used by the director and the content conveyed. We can understand the rules of the Anthropocene by explaining changes in the world, architecture, animals, environment, etc. after the disappearance of human beings.
- Source 3：
-Urban geography III: Anthropocene urbanism
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132516686012
-This article has some similarities to the subject of source 1. Source 1 is published in online magazines, so the writing will be closer to the public reading aesthetics. The advantage of this article is its professionalism, so it will be very different in terms of rhetoric and content integration.
1/19/20 Blog 1 about Environmentalism and Career Connections
Environmentalism is now being pursued together by people in many countries and regions. A few centuries ago, the development of industrialization in developed countries brought about drastic changes in people’s lives. Still, at the same time, that was also the beginning of the devastation for the global environment. One reason I am very interested in environmentalism is that my country, China, also facing the predicament of developed countries in the 19th and 20th centuries between balanced development and environmental protection.
There is another reason because of the ecological protection craze and discussion that “green girl” Greta Thunberg set off last year. I admire her perseverance and her efforts in propaganda, which allows people to think deeply once again and reflect on what we have done on the environment. However, I can also feel from her actions and claims that she is not mature enough. She needs more experts and mentors to give her scientific expertise and lead her to a more appropriate environmentalist path. Greta’s popularity has kept me focused on this girl’s environmental struggle with “adults” and has inspired me a lot.
To be frank, the career I am considering may not have a direct connection with and environmentalism. If I have to say something, maybe I can summarize and analyze data for some environmental protection surveys after I have acquired professional knowledge in the future. I can apply “logos” to environmentalism. Not only when writing an article, we need to list the evidence logically, such as some data. But also to support environmentalism, a credible database can enable us to refer to and solve problems in a targeted manner. Additionally, Optimization is an essential theory in mathematics. If all costs and pollution are optimized, it will definitely promote the environment. Mathematical modeling is very beneficial for pollution control in the environmental field.
In short, as a contemporary, no matter how my future career develops, I am supposed to embrace environmentalism in my life.