sustainable system project

1. Climate Change in China
Susan Feng (Jiayi)
Sustainable System RDA 1

2. Smog
• As China getting more industrialized more and
more factories are built, these factories
caused severe smog.
• Smog is a kind of air pollution containing
smoke and fog.
• Smog is can be toxin if breath in too much, can
cause lung cancer.
• Harmful to the environments and human
health.

3. Affect
• Smog can lead to ozone on lungs, lung cancer
coughing, and throat irritation
• If people have asthma, the high level of ozone
can cause sudden asthma attack
• Smog can also endanger the live of plants and
animals.
• Acid rain may also occur when smog reacts
with water

4. Adaptation
• 1.) Defend- Government will catch people who
burn coals, and try to reduce factory pollution.
• 2.) Measure – There are 36 monitoring points in
Beijing, and they are trying to form a monitoring
web to make sure people are no polluting.
• 3.) Control – People will have to learn how to
control themselves to take a part of the change.
• 4.) Limit – The government will limit coal and
limit traveling cars.

5. Video

6. Drought
• Drought had been affecting the food industry
and production in China
• Drought in China was caused by light rain and
high temperature
• Underlying reason is the changing of ocean
current and irregular circulation of the
atmosphere
• 33 million tons of crops was lost each year due
the drought

7. Effect
• Drought can effect land and water condition in
surrounding areas.
• Farmers can lose their job
• Food and water supply will decrease causing
inflation.
• Animals and wildlife will resettle to other
environment to search for water.

8. Adaptation
• Chinese government adapt the issue of
drought by artificial rainfall.
• Use “Graywater system”

9. Flood
• One of the biggest flood in Chinese history is the
Yellow River Flood in 1931.
• According to new research, the flood was actually
not a natural disaster, but was caused by human
intervention.
• Large scale of agriculture can cause the decrease
of nutrients within the soil, then less defensive
towards floods.
• Power dams can also be unintentionally causing
floods if the structure was bad.

10. Effect
• Roads, bridges, buildings, houses and farms
can de destroyed.
• Floods can make people homeless and
vulnerable.
• Floods also bring valuable soil away, and
effects harvest.

11. Adaptation
• Always locate your home on a higher ground
• Prepare sandbag- They are cheap, easy to
handle and very sufficient.
• Build the water barrier higher

12. Citation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27ycsxUtRM
• http://www.theguardian.com/vital-
signs/2014/oct/29/drought-flood-adaptation-climate-
change-california-greywater
• http://baike.baidu.com/subview/10705757/10924471.
htm#5_1
• http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-steel-smog-
idUSKBN0IJ2MP20141031
• http://www.healthline.com/health/dangers-smog-
what-you-need-know-about-air-pollution#1
• http://education.seattlepi.com/two-activities-humans-
increase-chance-flooding-4660.html