China officials caught spray-painting grass green in Chengdu

In Chengdu, China, officials hit upon an easy solution to cheer up their city's appearance: specifically, a chemical solution called Top Green Turf Greening Agent. Chinese reporters filmed workers from Chengdu's municipal landscaping department dying the grass green with green spray. A salesman from the company told  the China Daily newspaper that it is not toxic. A number of people are unhappy and wished that the government would use the money to build schools and make "The skies blue", making china free from pollution.

After reading this article, i was shocked that the department of landscaping in china actually made use of this method just to beautify the city; and at the same time not amazed by what they had done. We all know that China is heavily polluted as industries are booming in it. It is because of the pollution that vegetation there are literally dying. Instead of having campaigns or finding ways to decrease such heavy pollution, they actually sprayed the dying plants green instead to make citizens feel as though the land IS green and the plants are healthy. The pollution might therefore worsen as people who does not know about the spraying of the grass would feel that the pollution is not harming the environment as the plants are still healthy, hence continue to pollute the air. Spraying the grass may make the country appear "cleaner" and green, but it is not solving or improving the air pollution in China. I hope that the chinese government would look into ways of improving the air quality and not just thinking of development and beautifying the country. Affecting the lives of plants is indirectly affecting the lives of people. Plants are the giver of oxygen.