Letters

Protect the Earth from disaster

Recently, I spent two hours cleaning a narrow mountain path of trash in northern Beijing. Believe it or not, I filled two large bin bags by the time I came down from the mountain. The experience left me sad not because of the labor I had to put in to clear the garbage, but because people had indiscriminately strewn the mountain with trash.

I have been wondering since then, how could people be so inconsiderate. Do we want to turn China into a huge garbage dump? Will people do nothing to prevent such a nightmare from becoming reality? Does China have enough municipal workers to clean up the rural and urban areas?