Chapter 24 There is only one earth

God endowed the earth with incomparably rich resources, air, water, soil, and stones. These four substances constitute the basic elements for human survival.Human beings have understood the importance of air and water from the very beginning, and later, after entering a civilized society, their understanding of land has deepened.Stepping into industrial socialization, the understanding of stone exceeds the first three, and with the development of science and technology and modern civilization, the role of stone has far surpassed that of air, water, and soil. Perhaps it is precisely because of human preference for stone that it is called a resource.On the earth, air and water are inexhaustible substances 4 although with industrial development and population growth, they will be partially polluted.Land resources are a handful of loess, a handful of loess, it looks humble in the eyes of human beings, it has always been so, and so is the fact.In contrast, the way humans treat stones is very different, because there are gleaming and priceless gold, silver, and gems in stones... even treasures that are more precious than gold, silver, and gems.From the ancient Stone Age, to Greek mythology, stories in the Bible, there are too many anecdotes and legends about human beings demanding and looking for stone treasures.And the tragedies of scrambling, possessing and swallowing stones in life, which caused a series of thrilling fights, cheating and poisoning, cats bullying the weak, disowning relatives, revenge and revenge, who can tell it all!It can almost be concluded that every bloody war in the world today is related to resources.This was the case in World War I, and it was also the case in World War II; in this way, a country with a strong economy, but because of limited resource supply, turned its eyes to the neighboring cowardly but resource-rich countries.

Human beings cannot live without natural resources. Therefore, indifferent and fair, gentle and natural resources, in the long river of history, it has become the purpose of war intentionally or unintentionally. Although yesterday's war is over, as long as human beings continue to reproduce, the factor of war will become more and more dangerous because the world is expanding day by day. World War II has only been around for more than 40 years, which is just a blink of an eye in the history of the earth.However, in the blink of an eye, the earth suddenly revealed that human beings who rely on sucking their own milk and air are expanding and multiplying their own power at a thousand-fold speed, threatening to trample and sink this cosmic planet.

It took about 500,000 years from the birth of the first human being on the earth to the first one billion digits.However, it only took about 100 years to go from the first 1 billion to the second 1 billion. According to relevant data, in 1987, the total number of people in the world was 5 billion, and the growth time of the last three 1 billion was less than 50 years. year! The fecundity of human beings is incredible even to man himself! It is not only human beings who cause panic for this!The earth, known as the cradle of mankind, has long been silently cursing, and it began to retaliate and punish mankind in a unique way: no longer supply fresh and clean air, let you get sick and get cancer in a toxic environment!

Significantly reduce the clear and sweet water, let you live on the dry and cracked land. However, intelligent humans do not seem to be afraid of these.Polluted air can be purified, and diseases can be healed. When the sweet fresh water is lost, they start to ask the sea and the core of the earth... Human beings are hateful, and human beings are pitiful. Cleverness and wisdom can transform every inch of land on the earth, but they cannot regenerate the milk in the body of Mother Earth. These milk tricks are the three most worrying things for sociologists, economists and futurists today. One of the big issues - resources.

Population, resources, environment are insurmountable crises for human beings in the future. Counting them as old resources is so important to human beings.Today, advanced and developed western countries are already facing a resource crisis, why doesn't our country have the same problem? It has been discovered that the resource crisis faced by advanced and developed Western countries also exists in the People's Republic of China. On February 23, 1989, at the National Mineral Work Conference, Zhu Xun, the Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources of the Republic who knew the situation of China's mineral resources best, officially announced to the outside world for the first time:

The situation of China's mineral resources is quite grim! This is impossible!We are a country recognized by the world as a country with vast land and abundant resources. Will even the legacy left by the earth depreciate and disappear? Joining in the fun was infected by the sense of urgency that He Shang talked about! When the People's Daily published this news in a prominent position, China's economic, industrial, financial, and sociological circles... caused an uproar.It is said that the Office of the Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources frequently received inquiries and questioning calls that day.Some bluntly cursed: Hell, do you deliberately want to block and contain the great situation of reform that is developing rapidly?Or want to drag the four modern hind legs!The hats are frighteningly big, and the frightening thing is that the scary hats don't just come from those heroes and go-getters who are on the cusp of the economy, but some come from research institutions and authoritative departments that specialize in national conditions, political conditions, and futurology.

The refutation of the theory comes from the precise calculations and statistical facts of computers and microcomputers: With an area of ​​9.6 million square kilometers, China has the third largest land in the world! In China, 162 kinds of minerals have been discovered, including 148 kinds of minerals with proven reserves. We have almost all the mineral resources on the earth. China has world-class oil fields, coal mines and gold bases such as Daqing, Kaishen, Mohe, etc.! China's reserves of coal, iron, manganese, tungsten, lead, aluminum, zinc... Dozens of mineral resources that are indispensable to the development of human industry and economy and play a pillar role rank first in the world!

Besides, we're just getting started!Did the real industrial revolution and economic construction start from 1949, when New China was founded, to the present?And this also includes those unfortunate years of turmoil and internal friction. Could it be that our natural resources are not enough to mine for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years! Ten thousand years is too long, just seize the day!China is turmoil.Sufei is a triumphant song, but why are there so many worries in the triumphant song?Many elite scholars and institutions accuse the Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources of pessimism based on such theories and bases.

In fact, He Zeng, the Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources who is in charge of the basic industry of the economic development of the Republic, is willing to show his face to pour a bucket of cold water on the country's economic boom, but he is a pragmatic person. Various information and signals from the mining industry system have told him An irreversible fact for anyone: the global resource crisis problem has also been exposed and highlighted in China, whether you admit it or not!Before announcing the serious situation of China's mineral resources, Minister Zhu Xun made a report and solicited opinions from the newly appointed Premier Li Peng!

Our economic development is overheated, and the resource crisis does exist. The views of the two contemporary Chinese senior leaders who received orthodox Marxism-Leninism education in Lenin's hometown are completely consistent. Prime Minister: Comrade Minister, what is the situation of our capital allocation? Minister: In terms of the total amount of mineral resources, we are a veritable resource-rich country, and we are the third oldest country besides the Soviet Union and the United States.But the world's resource possessions are calculated on a per capita basis. In this way, we have dropped to the 80th place in the world, and the per capita resource possessions are less than half of the world's average level!

According to this level and the current situation of the country's economic development, what is our recent situation?The Prime Minister is very concerned about this. In the short term, the situation is grim compared with the proven reserves and the requirements of national economic development.Iron and steel, nonferrous metals and some bulk minerals in the chemical industry include iron, manganese, aluminum, lead, zinc, nickel, sulfur, phosphorus and sodium.Although the current reserves can basically guarantee the needs of the current policy, due to various factors, the output of these minerals cannot meet the needs of national construction, and some of them are imported in large quantities every year.These minerals have always been our fists in the past, and they have one of the best reserves!The prime minister interrupted the minister's words with emotion. Yes.The minister continued to report: In addition, although important mineral resources such as oil, natural gas, copper, precious metals, and coal have certain potential, there is currently a large gap in reserves available for planning and development, and the growth of reserves has become a key issue in production development : The prime minister nodded.In the more than one year since he took office, he has a deep understanding. As the chief steward of the world's largest country accounting for 1/5 of the human population, no one would have guessed that he is often forced to the point where it is difficult for a smart woman to eat without rice. Stable adjustments... At the just-concluded State Council Executive Work Conference and the upcoming National People's Congress, he ordered governments at all levels to take and further measures.However, it is difficult for people living in the cool autumn to perceive the real winter cold. He is more concerned about the state of China's resources in the next ten years and the next century. Mineral resources is a long-term business, and this is what the minister is anxious about. ... Daqing, Shengli, Kailuan and other major oil fields and coal mines that made great contributions to our socialist motherland decades ago have mostly entered the middle and late stages. That is to say, by the year 2000, all or basically Entering the old age with little mining value.The production capacity of iron, aluminum and zinc mines will also disappear by 10% to 40% respectively, and most mines will start to dry up.If in the next few years, we cannot have a series of major breakthroughs in our prospecting, then we will most likely have empty hands to meet the economic situation that has started and is moving forward rapidly. What kind of situation is that? Participate in the long-distance running race with an empty stomach! What kind of taste is that?The world famous long-distance runner Jos Herman of the Netherlands once made an unforgettable description of this. Once, when I was participating in a world race of 20,000 meters, due to logistical reasons, within a few hours before the race, my I couldn't add any food to my stomach.Terrible, when the gunshots rang out in the arena, on the race track, I, a man without nourishment, was like a weak and charming woman who wanted to run but couldn't, and couldn't stop when she wanted to sing. Worse than death... I finally retired from the arena! Hungry Joss Helman retired from the game is nothing more than one less medal.But if a country with a population of 1.2 billion falls behind in the global economic race, what it will lose will not be just a gold medal, but the entire nation! Resources are crucial to the survival of a nation, but when did a nation of mortal beings ever think about the resources endowed by God? Cutting, felling and pumping... never-ending, never-satisfying cutting, cutting/pumping! Faced with a huge map in the shape of a rooster, the Chinese have boasted to the world countless times about their large population.In the 1950s and even in the early 1960s, the poor and white Chinese did use this to inspire their revolutionary fighting spirit and overcome many external pressures, making the Chinese nation a giant standing in the East. Man can conquer nature! More people are more powerful, and things can be done quickly and well! With half more people, the world will belong to us Chinese! However, resources are inversely proportional to population development.Due to its rapid development, the large population, which was once the advantage of the Chinese nation, has suddenly become a disadvantage that is difficult to get rid of. Fortunately, today's Chinese citizens have already understood: excessive population will only bring self-destruction to human beings! I admire the relentless approach to birth control in the Eastern Hemisphere.However, I must point out that if compared to a blind person who is asleep, they are only half awake at the moment!A famous American scholar said so. When this gentleman visited China, he unceremoniously warned the Chinese leaders: You don't need to send many, many expert groups to the United States.The economic development of the United States is certainly disgusting, but it is a dead end.The reason is very simple. The population of the United States accounts for only 6 percent of the world's total population, and the current standard of living of these 6 percent of the population consumes 1/3 of the world's annual mineral resources.Not to mention the whole world, but just China, a country with 1 billion people, if you want to catch up with the living standards of the West, the amount of mineral resources that should be in the world will be seriously negative. This gentleman is one of the authors of the famous book Entropy. Entropy, as an academic work, has created a record of 40 million reprints in the West. As a theory, entropy has shocked the world.It declares that Newton's mechanistic world view will soon be replaced, and the laws governing all aspects of human beings will be the second law of thermodynamics and the first law of thermodynamics. Matter and energy in the universe are conserved, and can neither be created nor created. Contrary to the theory of annihilation, entropy cries out to humanity: we cannot create energy, and all things eventually perish.Because matter and energy are used along one direction, from effective to ineffective, from order to disorder.Everything in the material world is limited... The only hope for human beings to survive is to give up plundering the earth.How similar is this to the pity Dante had! It is impossible to verify whether the views of the inventor of the entropy theory have influenced the decision-making of Chinese leaders, but one thing is true: China has begun to waver to the theory of vast land and abundant resources. Scientifically speaking: We can't say that the land is vast and the resources are abundant.It is a veritable small land and poor property.This remark came from the mouth of the director of China's Land Bureau and the Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources. The Director of Land and Resources Bureau said: Yes, we have an area of ​​9.6 million square kilometers, but the real usable cultivated land area is only more than one billion mu, and the average per capita is less than 14 mu. Can we say that the land is truly big? Zhu Xun, the third Minister of Geology and Mineral Resources of the People's Republic of my country, I have heard him say this many times face to face. Judging from the mineral resources that have been identified but not yet exploited, the situation is extremely severe to meet the needs of society that has just entered the process of industrialization and the grand three-step modernization plan formulated by the party.How serious is it?Most people can't imagine it. We need to disclose the hard-to-read scriptures of the Mineral Resources Department: At present, nearly two-thirds of the country's backbone metal and non-ferrous metal mines have reached the middle and late stages of production, and some are on the verge of depletion.The Daqing, Shengli, Huabei and other oilfields that we were and are still proud of have entered the final stage of stable production, the natural decline in production has exceeded 15, and the water content of crude oil is above 7. In 1988, Daqing Oilfield suffered a loss for the first time.The Xinhua News Agency's report caused an uproar both at home and abroad, and the International Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries held a special meeting to study the possible worldwide fluctuations in crude oil.Coal, rare earth, tin, graphite, antimony, and tungsten are minerals that my country can dominate in the world. It is heard that from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s, my country has been an important exporter of minerals, but in recent years it has not been satisfactory.It is a foregone conclusion that China will change from an exporter to an importer by the end of this century.According to the materials provided by the International Minerals Import Organization in 1988, among the 161 countries and regions in the world, there are only two countries whose imports of mineral products account for more than 15% of the total imports. One is Mobique in Africa and the other is China in Asia. .China, the real third world! This is the status quo of China's mineral resources.So what about tomorrow? In 1981, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources submitted a report to the State Council on the prediction of my country's prospecting plan for the next 12 years. This report provided the following data. By 2000, the demand for my country's main mineral products is: energy refers to coal 1.6 billion tons, 1 to 1.2 billion tons of crude steel, 2.5 million tons of aluminum, 1.25-1.5 million tons of copper, 400,000 tons of lead, 800,000 tons of zinc, 25 million tons of standard sulfur ore, 35 million tons of standard phosphorus ore, and 4.6 million tons of potassium fertilizer .Among the above-mentioned minerals, except for the standard coal that can be guaranteed, copper, potassium, and salt mines are seriously in short supply, and other minerals can be basically guaranteed.But after 2000, there will be a general shortage of all mineral reserves.Predictions are often much more optimistic than reality.In fact, there is a big difference between the resource reserves available for planning and the reserves at the mine construction level.Take China's ace resource coal as an example. In 1987, my country's coal reserves provided by the resource exploration department amounted to more than 800 billion tons, of which the reserves available for medium-term planning were more than 500 billion tons, but the reserves that could be used for mine design were only more than 40 billion tons, which accounted for only 1/10 of the reserves available for planning and utilization, and 1/20 of the total reserves. What does this ratio indicate?It shows that in the past, we sang to the world how many of China's underground resource reserves, 80% are water!Squeeze out the moisture, extract the essence, and compare it with the inflated living demands of 1.2 billion Chinese people and the resource consumption required for our grand development plan at the end of this century and the middle of the next century. There is a huge gap between this.And this difference God will never give us a happy gift again! Mineral resources, as the earth's precious heritage, will never be regenerated like crops.When we human beings who rely too much on the milk of the earth mother for our livelihood suddenly find that we are all weaned one day, it may be too late. It is said that in ancient times, there was a pair of brothers who shared an inheritance left by their ancestors.But a demon who lived near them told the brothers that after a year they must die.The brothers are very sad.The ignorant brother thought to himself that if he died anyway, why not be happy for a while!Therefore, he squandered the inheritance left by his ancestors.Within half a year, the inheritance was gone.When he was about to die, the ignorant younger brother asked the wise older brother: Anyway, why are you still so stupid when you die?The wise brother replied: If you can win a little hope, you should not destroy it yourself.Sure enough, a few months later, the devil who made fun of them died, and the wise elder brother passed the anniversary of his death for a year safely and lived a very happy life. When I come from one mining area to another, from one gold field to another, and see thousands of miners wantonly destroying and embezzling extremely precious and limited mineral resources, I am not envious at all. Their musty bills and uninhibited life; on the contrary, I deeply mourn for them—they are so much like the stupid younger brother in the legend.Isn't the devil playing tricks on them just people's insatiable material desires? God is always fair.Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. This God is Mother Earth. We should take good care of Mother Earth. For this reason, before the end of this article, it seems that it is necessary to further discuss in depth the rapid rise and prohibition of the wind of robbing mines and stealing treasures that has spread across the country.The author thinks that there are many issues worth thinking about. Some people say: Human nature is evil, greedy and barbaric.Therefore, when many people see that stones can be turned into beautiful banknotes, glorious bungalows, and soul-stirring beauties, they desperately vent their greed and barbaric viciousness and plunder recklessly, even at the expense of themselves. s life. Some people say that people who grow from the loess have a natural banditry, whether it is primitive society or civilized society, it has always been like this.Because the Chinese are too poor.As long as the poor roots are not dug up, the wildfire will never be extinguished. Some people say that the problem lies in the call from above, you don’t shout on the loudspeaker every day to make everyone rich, why would we want to go up the mountain to dig ore!The cadres of the base house nodded to this and said: The meeting above will let us cultivate outstanding households. In this barren land, we naturally think of relying on the mountain to eat the mountain!If not, how can there be ten thousand households? Some people say: Chinese people don’t understand land law, and the constitution of the Republic clearly states that natural mineral resources belong to the state, but they simply ignore these, as if the whole earth belongs to them. someone said…… Perhaps, in the face of the problem of indiscriminate mining and asset depletion involving various factors, we can put out ten or one hundred reasons to explain.Perhaps, the Chinese people have a natural greed, as well as new diseases of getting rich and legal blindness... However, I think that the reason why China has such a trend of robbing mines and stealing treasures is not only the inherent bad roots of our nation, but also our Some mistakes in the policy, in addition to our legal provisions are not perfect, in addition to the lack of corresponding effective measures of government departments at all levels, or other reasons, but the most fundamental and most important reason is that many people do not have resources in their minds crisis awareness. People without scientific knowledge and scientific thinking, without moral norms and basic principles, must be ignorant, greedy, blind, and barbaric.Shake our camera to see the shocking incidents of robbing mines and stealing treasures. Isn't that the conclusion? The wind of robbing mines and stealing treasures raging across the land of China is heinously serious.And these germs seem to come from townships and individual mining enterprises.Can we put forward such a slogan: resolutely and thoroughly wipe out township and individual mines as well as the township and individual mining industry.When the book was completed and sent to the Mineral Resources Administration of the People's Republic of China for review, senior engineer Sun Jin, who was in charge of publicity work, said to the author with a smile: Then we will make another big mistake.He said that after the liberation of China, a total of 200,000 mines were discovered, and only 15,000 were truly invested and developed by the state.So, who will mine so many mines?That is our local irregular army - the township mining army.I hope that readers will not come to such a conclusion after reading your masterpiece: the township mining industry is the root of all evils that destroy our country's mineral resources.In fact, the development of township mining industry is a great success experience in China.You think, there are so many mines in China, and they are so scattered, can the state alone be able to do it?Besides, does the country have so much investment?Therefore, the development of villages and towns, including the individual mining industry, is the road that our country must take. It is beneficial to the country and the people, and it is our strategic direction.The problem is that at present, our country lacks scientific and effective legal management of townships, including individual mining industries.As the saying goes, there is no law, if there is no law, of course you will lose sight of the sky!The words of the experts really gave the author a taste.Yes, in China, a country with more than one billion people, if there is no awareness and no law, what kind of things will not happen? The reason why I made public the people and things who are crazy to plunder mineral resources.The purpose is to wake up the people and work with our government to stop this wild black tide after waking up, so as to ensure the future of the republic, the future of the people, including your own future and the future of your children and grandchildren.Otherwise, hundreds of millions of Chinese people will enter the coming century barebacked! At the same time, we also want to appeal to those citizens who only want to make a fortune for themselves and live a life like heaven through even the most fragile efforts, to have more conscience, protect natural resources more, and cherish what God has left for our children and grandchildren. The love of the special heritage, and less the greed of personal selfish desires only for immediate benefits. Let us all remember one sentence: There is only one earth.Natural resources do not regenerate.We worship heaven, but the rise and fall of heaven depends on whether we cherish the treasures bestowed by God!