Relationship with Environment

Relationship with Environment

The relationship between population, natural resource and the degree of pollution of the environment are unseparated. When population size goes up, the natural resource would goes down, depends on the human demand and economy growth. The degree of pollution would goes up as well. According to the data (1960-2010), the carbon dioxide emissions from 780,726kt to 8,286,892kt, which was 961.43% increase. And the population size from 650,680.11.1 thousand to 1,359,821.47 thousand that was 191.76% increase. As we know that pollution problem is threating the earth, because of the carbon dioxide emission lead to the global warming. Then, iceberg melting would cause the water level rises. On the other hand, the environment awareness and political are the reasons why China’s ecological and environmental quality still lag behind the developed countries. As we know that China be called as ‘The World Factory’, because of Chinese government improve the manufactory industry in order to upgrade the economy growth, but they have ignored the damage to the environment by the pollution. Increasing population and growing wealth has led to China's energy consumption rapid growth, and this trend can only be expected to accelerate in the future. In the world as a whole, energy use has increased nearly 85% over the past 30 years, but has increased more than 300% in China. As we can see the carbon dioxide emission by Japan 1960-2010, started with 232,781kt (1960) to 1,259,655kt (2010), that was 441.13% increased. China’s CO2 emissions growth rate were more than twice of Japan.

In addition to the consumption of natural resources, environmental pollution caused by energy use continues to rise, especially when the country is unable or unwilling to adhere to energy-saving, pollution-free technology. For example, China produced more than twice as Japanese carbon per unit of gross domestic product, which indicates the efficiency of the industry in China is much lower than Japan's industrial production techniques. Carbon emissions per person, by contrast, is more than three times higher in Japan, which indicates a higher level of consumption by the Japanese.

With the population size increases, the demand for natural resource (such as oil, tree, freshwater, stone, etc) will increases. Even Chinese total resources are large, but the resources per