Is there no harm to the environment from China's Winter Olympics

 

Over the past few decades, Olympic events have become so grand and big that environmental hazards abound. The claims of making the Beijing Olympics sustainable show the same contradiction. The Winter Olympics is being organized in Beijing, the capital of China. For this, the organizers have done construction on a very large scale. Many new sports venues were created. Millions of gallons of water were released to create fake snow on the surrounding mountains for ski competitions. Along with this, the organizers also claim that they are organizing the most sustainable event in Olympic history. Sustainable simply means sustainable. What they mean here is that whatever construction work has been done for the Olympics, it is going to cause the least harm to the environment. But how are these two things possible simultaneously? Countries and companies want to shine their credibility in the matter of environment. In such a situation, this contradiction shows how difficult it is to deviate from the real achievements. For example, the organizers of the Olympics were successful to a great extent in reducing the damage caused to the environment by the award works. However, experts say that claiming it to be sustainable is like exaggerating and hiding problems.

There is a great lack of transparency in China. Therefore, it is very difficult to verify the claims. Come, let us understand what is being known and what is not known to us from the sustainability claims being made in China. How will you measure sustainability? Sustainability is a broad term. Under this, many things are discussed at once. It is commonly used to refer to the environmental, economic and social impacts of a work. Experts say that there is no clear and consistent measure of this, due to which it becomes difficult to trust the claims made about sustainability. According to a study released last year, in the early 2000s, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was looking for a way to evaluate how organizers were progressing towards achieving sustainability goals. According to the report, after a while the hosting countries of the Olympics stopped paying attention to it, because it was too cumbersome to gather all the necessary information related to it. Also read: Crisis on the existence of winter sports due to climate change, again researchers have invented a method of their own. Whatever information was publicly available, they began to measure the sustainability of sports on the basis of that. Now since all the information is not available continuously. In such a situation, it is difficult to compare these data and reach any conclusion from them.