Foreign environmental experts want China to switch to knives and forks and complain that chopsticks destroy the environment. What's the result?

Environmental protection is a hot topic in recent years. Human beings only have one earth, and protecting the environment means protecting themselves. How to strike a balance between economic development and environmental protection and realize sustainable development is a problem that every country in the United States is considering. China's rapid economic development in recent years has also sacrificed some of its environment. However, with the economic development of China, China began to pay more and more attention to environmental protection, and put forward that "green mountains and green waters are golden mountains".

However, many countries still have prejudice against China. In the eyes of some foreigners, the impression of China still stays more than ten years ago. Some time ago, an expert in Britain suggested that China should be banned from using chopsticks, because using chopsticks in China will cut down a lot of forests and cause serious damage to forests. Therefore, most people in China use iron chopsticks like Koreans, or use knives and forks instead.

Will China really damage the environment by using chopsticks?

First of all, the use of chopsticks has been a custom in China for many years, and it is a part of China's food culture. Not only China, North Korea, Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam and other countries with Chinese characters are using chopsticks as tableware. However, most countries still use wooden chopsticks or bamboo chopsticks, because it is very inconvenient for iron chopsticks to burn their mouths when eating hot dishes, so China still chooses wooden chopsticks.

So will China really damage the environment by using chopsticks? China has a population of 1.3 billion, and disposable chopsticks are very popular now. China is also a big exporter of disposable chopsticks. If China really cuts down forests as raw materials for chopsticks, all the trees in China will be cut down in less than 1 years. In fact, chopsticks in China are made of wood from fast-growing forests, which will not destroy trees. However, fast-growing forests will cause soil erosion, so now China has been advocating making chopsticks from bamboo.

what has China done for world environmental protection?

This British expert said that China's destruction of the environment is really nonsense, not to mention that China's chopsticks don't need to cut down trees at all. From the vegetation area of China in recent years, we can also face the British expert's statement that China ranked first in the world's new vegetation area last year, and China's increased vegetation area accounted for a quarter of the world's new vegetation area.

in order to protect the environment, China has used artificial afforestation, aerial seeding afforestation, closing hillsides to facilitate afforestation, restoration of degraded forests and artificial regeneration to increase the vegetation area, of which 55.17 million mu were planted in 218, 26.77 million mu were newly closed hillsides to facilitate afforestation and 19.94 million mu were restored to degraded forests.

Since the 197s, the vegetation area in China has increased from 12.7% to 22.96%, with a forest area of 22 million hectares and a forest accumulation of 17.56 billion cubic meters. In terms of forest area and accumulation, China has maintained "double growth" for more than 3 years, becoming the country with the largest growth of forest resources in the world. So from the data, we can hit British experts in the face. In fact, China is one of the countries that pay the most attention to environmental protection in recent years.