A visit to the department

We visited the environment department yesterday. A man wearing a big smile came to us and spoke to us when we were waiting for the professor. It was him, professor Roy Marchant, who just came form Kenya the day before yesterday.

Firstly, he introduced the department to us. Although it is a small department, it has 18 staff. It includes environmental economics, environmental management, environmental science and environmental geography. Taking environmental management as an example, it is quite a big engineering. If a river has been polluted, you should consider the whole system while not only the river to avoid unexpected side-effects. The answer surprised me when the professor was asked what would the students in this department do after graduation. It is quite different from that in China. The company will not take the major that you have in university important. There is no relation between major and job. You can choose to work in BP or go to work in a supermaket. It benefits the students a lot, because they can choose the major according to their interests. While in China, we will choose a good major which can gurantee you have a good job. As a result, people learn the major bur they do not like it at all. I think it is an important reason why there is no Nobel Prize Winner.

Then we discussed the problem about globle warming. It is quite interesting. Our opinion about the globle warming is that it is an natural phenomenon which appears in a certain period. The limit of carbon dioxide is an excuse to astrict the developing in China and other developing countries. What's more,  Copenhagen Conference and Cancun Meeting is a method to let the exceuse to appear more reasonable. While Roy showed us a graph which includes the globle average temperature changing in about 2000 years.

There exists a circle, but in recent years the temperture becomes higher and higher as well as the emission of the carbon dioxide. So we should take measures to reduce the release of  carbon dioxide, such as finding new energy, planting much more trees and so on. What I think is that the two opposite views both have quite good reason to support them, we actually can not define which is correct. So the environment department is very important. We should do much more research to find the correct answer objectively to the whole world.

Thanks a lot to the University of York for giving me so nice an opportunity to mind me to be independent and precise when I am doing the research, and to keep the sentence: Science has no borders. in mind forevre!!!