[Mobile phone knows] The simple origin of World Car Free Day

World Car Free Day originated in France in 1998. Dominique, leader of the French Green Party and then Minister of Land Consolidation and Environment of France? Mrs. Wen launched the activity "I won't drive in the city today", which was responded by the capital Paris and 34 other provinces and cities. On September 22nd of that year, citizens of 35 cities in France voluntarily gave up their private cars, and designated this day as "City Car Free Day". Subsequently, other European countries and many cities in North America, South America and Asia followed suit and designated September 22nd as "European Car Free Day" and "International Car Free Day". Up to now, more than 65,438+0,000 cities around the world have launched "Car Free Day" activities.

/kloc-from 0/6 to September 22nd, the first China City Bus Week and Car Free Day will be held simultaneously in cities across the country 108. Beijing, Shanghai and other cities have announced their participation in this activity and will formally sign the commitment letter of "Car Free Day". During the activity, government leaders must take the lead in commuting, walking or cycling.

After reading this news, I remembered a classic joke, which said that after a farmer entered the city in the 1980s, he went back and told his hometown people that the city people were advanced, people used toilet paper for defecation, and we used garbage. Different is different. In the 1990s, the farmer went into town and passed a restaurant. After coming back, I was inexplicably surprised: "What happened to people in the city? I used to wipe my mouth with toilet paper. How can I wipe my mouth with toilet paper now? " Behind the humor of this joke, there is actually a phenomenon hidden. In other words, rural people learn from urban people and catch up with the pace of urban people, but they always ride donkeys to catch trains. As a result, we not only failed to catch up, but pursued further and further. This big distance is a kind of conceptual distance, which means that the country people catch up with the city people in action, but they have not bypassed this bend in concept.

Advocating car-free day is good news. But obviously, in China, with decades of rapid economic development, many people in China are at a loss about the sudden wealth. There is a joke that a poor man joked with a friend that when I have money, I will buy two bowls of soybean milk, drink one bowl and pour one. We might as well call the realistic mentality revealed by this joke "soymilk theory". This thing is very interesting, just like when foreigners began to come to China in droves, some people saw foreigners wearing glasses and crutches, so they got a foreign hat to wear. But what he didn't know was that those foreigners were secretly laughing at his long braids exposed outside his hat.

In fact, car-free day is not a national concrete action, but an idea of advocating environmental protection, planting seeds of environmental protection in everyone's heart and telling him to abandon the psychology of buying soybean milk. Your idea of poor people buying soybean milk has been lifted. Knowing that driving like this is bad for my living environment, I will consciously not drive or drive less. This is the key. If we don't get rid of the idea of showing off and seeking convenience, and everyone's mind is still full of the consciousness of "fake foreign devils", what can we do to advocate car-free day? You can't get rid of the root cause. You have no car day today, but not tomorrow. I'm fine driving around. If this is obviously not possible, it will be easy to become a mere formality and "delicate". The so-called world car-free day is just that many people are disarmed by the idea of "fake foreign devils" and let them drive less and use less cars voluntarily. If everyone has this state of mind, it doesn't really matter whether there is a car-free day or not.