Holiday economy refers to the behavior of people using concentrated shopping and concentrated consumption on holidays. It is a system-based economic model that drives supply, drives the market, and drives economic development. Although people use tourism to increase their knowledge and adjust their mood... There are many legitimate factors and needs, but in order to achieve large-scale economic, capital, and GDP figures, large-scale holidays are concentrated, and the holiday economy is concentrated to promote the holiday economy. This way, I think, it is not necessarily appropriate.

Many people have experienced the impact of holiday travel – an instant explosion that causes highways, such as the two-way eight-lane road from Beijing to Inner Mongolia, to experience hours of congestion – even in normal times, the roads are empty and unmanned. This additional construction in response to the excess flow of the holiday, including the various demands faced by railways and aircraft, has also put pressure on the ecological environment resources.

The holiday economy is essentially the alienation of consumption. A legitimate and objective operation will promote the tourism economy and should be decentralized, precise, and necessary. This will avoid the negative effects of the environment and traffic being overwhelmed.

We should not engage in the alienation of consumption, do not engage in consumerism, and do not engage in a consumer economy; we should not support excessive and alienated consumption driven by capital. They should be limited.

It should be a healthy and correct demand that meets the needs of the people. The era of ecological civilization requires sustainable development. It requires the balance of human existence and the protection of habitat. We need legitimate and reasonable consumption.

Just like my experience not long ago. When I went out for a meeting, someone suggested to me: You should sue this matter, the disposable tableware in the restaurant - many restaurants are available, including wet wipes, disposable chopsticks, toothpicks, and everything. But we actually probably don't need to use them. Therefore, the packaging of this default supply of small plastic bags on the table is completely unnecessary.

My answer is that this one-time packaged tableware is actually the alienation of consumption.

In the past, the restaurants used chopsticks and paper towels that could be reused as needed. How about now? What is the phenomenon reflected by the large amount of use? In fact, its price does not objectively reflect the human cost to the environment. And capital through the means of industrial civilization, with the way of the market, transferred this cost.

The so-called cost transfer, I give an example: we use the network search engine, there is no charge. But the service of the search engine provider actually costs, but why not collect it? Because this is driven by industrial civilization through capital, the cost is passed on to the advertising business to bear. Therefore, the merchants profit from the netizens through advertisements.

Today's disposable chopsticks look cheap and even free. Is it really worth nothing? No. Just because it succeeded in passing the cost. In fact, its environmental costs are enormous: from the deforestation of trees, the processing of raw materials, to the production of pulp, cutting, pasting, transporting, selling, using, recycling, and ultimately being treated as waste, throughout its life cycle. In the system, it means the cost of resources, environment and energy.

Capital has the power to pass on this cost. Let us easily think that it is really free. In fact, no matter how it is passed on, the cost of the entire ecological environment is shared by all mankind.

Therefore, we must promote the restriction of the holiday economy and the waste of disposable tableware through various effective methods, such as legal means, through the awareness of citizens. It is also possible to pass taxation methods such as environmental taxes. We should replace the environmental tax with the packaging of disposable paper products, pass the recycling of such capital, and reduce the waste through environmental tax control, so that consumption returns to its essence. It is not to stop consumption, but to stop arbitrary waste.

In the case of the above-mentioned litigation proposal, in fact, so many disposable wipes, toothpicks, and so on, are not used when they are actually discarded. On the contrary, many consumers go restaurants to eat, and they want to use the (decontaminated) reusable tableware, but they are not satisfied. These phenomena are all serious violations of the idea of ecological civilization and should be severely punished and stopped.

(This article is organized according to oral dictation and is not verified by the speaker himself.)

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By / Maggie