What does "let the wind and sand bow obediently" mean?

"Let the wind and sand bow obediently" means: tame the wind and sand and make it bow under human feet, protect the environment, and there will be no more wind and sand.

This sentence is mainly used in promotional slogans to protect the environment.

Extension of knowledge:

Protecting the environment

Environmental protection refers to human beings’ efforts to solve actual or potential environmental problems, coordinate the relationship between human beings and the environment, and protect the economy. A general term for various actions taken for the sustainable development of society. The methods and means include engineering technology, administrative management, legal, economic, publicity and education, etc. Environmental protection means human beings consciously protect natural resources and make reasonable use of them to prevent the natural environment from being polluted and damaged; comprehensively manage the polluted and damaged environment to create an environment suitable for human life and work. The concept of coordinating the relationship between man and nature and allowing people to live in harmony with nature.

Chai Jing’s filming of “Under the Dome of Smog” is helpful in raising people’s awareness of protecting the environment.

The development history of international environmental protection

In 1963, American biologist Rachel Carson published a book called "Silent Spring", which explained pesticides Due to the book's warning about the pollution and damage caused by the pesticide DDT to the environment, the U.S. government began to investigate the issue of highly toxic pesticides and established the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Various states have also passed bans on production. and laws on the use of highly toxic pesticides. This book is considered the iconic starting point of environmental ecology in the 20th century.

Initiated by the United Nations, the "First Conference on the Human Environment" was held in Stockholm, Sweden from June 5 to 16, 1972, setting the first milestone for human and international environmental protection. The Declaration on the Human Environment adopted at the conference is the first global international document to protect the environment in human history. It marks the birth of international environmental law.

The International Environmental Education Conference held in Belgrade in 1975 issued the famous "Belgrade Charter", which clarified the purpose, goals, objects and guiding principles of environmental education.

The first Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education was held in Tbilisi, the capital of the Soviet Union of Georgia in 1977. The meeting issued the "Declaration of the Tbilisi Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education" ” and “Recommendation for the Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education”

From December 7 to 18, 2009, the Copenhagen World Climate Conference was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. Negotiators from 192 countries held a summit. Discuss the follow-up plan after the expiration of the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol commitments, that is, the global emissions reduction agreement from 2012 to 2020. This is another epoch-making global climate agreement after the Kyoto Protocol. There is no doubt that it will have a decisive impact on the future direction of climate change on the earth. This is a meeting that has been hailed as "the last chance to save mankind." The meeting issued the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.