"May 1st" holiday to the old vegetable garden to look for swans, the whole morning we turned the place to turn even the swan feathers have not seen, but the children after the age of ten always have some quirky questions, challenging the intelligence of adults. After lunch, we were resting under the tree, and Wang Lexi suddenly said to me, "Dad, I have a question for you." ”

"What's the problem?"

"When you encounter problems, you often say to use wisdom, and teachers often say to use wisdom, are they the same thing?"

That's a really good question, and I thought to myself, "Is it the same thing?"

"It's one thing. I asked the teacher. ”

"No," I said, "wisdom and cleverness are two different things. Frankly, the teacher had a wrong understanding of wisdom. Some teachers' recognition of wisdom is based on how many difficult problems they can solve, but in fact, the ability to solve problems is not wisdom but intelligence. Intelligence is innate, and he is always faster than others in learning the knowledge or technology that has been done before him. Wisdom is different, it is the integration of experience, knowledge, and technology to solve and prevent real problems. ”

"Dad, smart means that your brain is easy to use, right?"

"That's right. ”

"Wisdom is not innate, but what it is, I don't understand what you're talking about. ”

"Joy, do you often have to go through the battle to win when you play?"

"Yes. ”

"When there is no one sure of victory or defeat, the perception that observes and chooses the degree of the state of affairs is called wisdom, and the wisdom that has already made a judgment on things and then chooses the way to be able to attain it is called wisdom. Generally speaking, it is the wisdom of discovering problems and solving problems for wisdom, and it is the accumulation of experience and ability to identify things, judge right and wrong, and solve problems. ”

"Dad, I get it. ”

"Got what?"

"To go to school is to turn wisdom into wisdom. ”

"What do you do when you become wise?"

"Get into a first-class university. ”

"Wrong. Miss by a mile. ”

"That's what our teachers taught us. ”

"Dad doesn't think so. ”

"Why?"

"Wisdom is in the service of survival, like the conflict between learning and playing now, how to solve it, it depends on whether you have wisdom in this area. If every child thinks that studying is just to get into college, then the country is finished. ”

"The teachers all said that if you don't study hard, you won't be able to get into college in the future, and you won't even be able to find a job. ”

"Joy, what do you see in the field north of the old vegetable garden?"

"The product is white, I don't know what it's called. ”

"Dad doesn't know. But Dad knew that it was causing serious pollution to the green space to the east. What do you think that field is up there to the south?"

"It's alchemy. ”

"How do you know?"

"Those big grinders that look like barbells are used for alchemy. I've seen and heard people talk about it when I'm out there. ”

"Well, you know a lot. I said, "It's alchemy." Where was it built?"

"It's built on the grass. ”

"Is there still green to the north of it?"

"It's gone. ”

"When people go to school and get educated, they not only have to manage their own lives, but more importantly, they must build the country well. If every child knows about going to college from an early age, but does not know the true meaning of going to college, he will build a workshop like the one in front of him after graduating from college in the future, and damage the interests of the whole country and others in order to make food and clothing. Some people can get rich, but not at the cost of more people being poor, this is the most basic principle of governing the country and the world, otherwise the world will be in chaos. ”

"Daddy, there's going to be a sandstorm," my son interrupted, pointing to the north.

I took a look and saw that the sky was a little yellow. I said, "Sandstorm, it's impossible, the weather forecast says it's windy." ”

As we spoke, we came to the spring of the old vegetable garden, where we washed our hands and faces, and at last the water was muddy, and I said, "Joy, can you drink this water?"

"No, you can't. ”

"Why?"

"It's dirty. ”

"But a few minutes ago it was clean water! Dad wants to tell you a story about Venice and the sea. ”

"Venice. European countries. I love to hear stories about Europe. ”

"How do you know that Venice is a European country?"

"Dad, you forgot, when you told me about "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", I was holding a globe. ”

"It seems that the story is not told in vain. ”

"Dad, don't talk about it, talk about it quickly. ”

"Venice is a coastal city and there is a lot of human activity along the coast. For a long time, the Venetian aquaculture industry developed rapidly, and the tourist resorts became larger and larger. As people get richer, their beaches get smaller, the waters are polluted, the seagrass is degraded, and then the seafood starts to dwindle. At this time, the Venetians realized that their wealth was not at all banks and money, but the quality of the sea. The problem was exacerbated by the haste to protect coasts, beaches and reefs with advanced science and technology and large amounts of money. Later, the Wess reduced human activities in the ocean, and the bad momentum was alleviated, which shows that the existing science and technology of mankind are not capable of achieving a virtuous circle of economic development. The green of the land and the blue of the ocean are the only way out of the virtuous circle of mankind. Therefore, human beings should not only think about their own well-being, but also reserve the environment for the life of the earth. In fact, to maintain an intact ecosystem is to protect ourselves as human beings. Sadly, a lot of development is happening as Venice did with nature, and it's getting worse. ”

"Dad, I don't understand what you're saying, but there are so many dead trees here, and the grass behind the two fields is gone, that's what you mean. The son said.

Although 10-year-olds cannot express the logic of things in words, they can intuitively understand the essence of things. Wang Xile's words led me to think that in essence, the source of wealth in the world is neither enterprises nor banks, but all from the quality of the land. As we continue to draw wealth from the land to contribute to human activities, we continue to draw wealth from the land to contribute to human activities, but not much new capital can be generated to return to the land, and over time, the fertility of the land will inevitably decline, making people lose interest in the land. If the land is compared to an enterprise, the enterprise will take out the "fertility" of the land into fixed assets in its business activities, and the land will naturally generate liabilities over time. When the debt develops to a certain level and the land lacks sufficient "fertility" for land management, there are only two outcomes: one is to invest one part of the "fertility" in another part of the land, sacrificing half to maintain half, and the other is that the land suffers from anemia from chronic malnutrition. It can be clearly seen from this that if the overall management of land is done, no matter how small the "fertility" of fixed assets is invested, there will be no danger to enterprises. Generally speaking, the investment in fixed assets is low, and more capital can be used to increase the fertility of the land, which is the real capital of enriching the people and strengthening the country. The state is, in effect, a land-based enterprise. If the fertility of the land is drained and people lose interest in the land, what else can the country have?

The protection and proper use of our natural resources should be a fundamental issue for national development. Almost every problem in national life is based on it. It is evident as a nation that not only enjoys the present prosperity, but also treats it right, and works with foresight, and will eventually be richly rewarded. We must be prepared for the future, and we must understand the fact that the poor use of resources, or even the waste and destruction of our resources, will ultimately undermine the prosperity that our children and grandchildren deserve.

The swans are extinct, the trees are dead; Government agencies at all levels should feel the seriousness of the nature of the problem, and the changes in the living environment have demanded that we look far into the future and replace the wanton struggle for immediate interests with the planned and orderly development of our resources.

The government should grant land ownership to real settlers free of charge, so as to fundamentally stop the frenzied seizure of the "fertility" of the land by those who only want to make a profit and have no intention of building a homeland.

The human mind and will have the ability to change and improve the environment. How to protect our natural resources and environment is an experimental subject to test whether the Chinese nation has the conviction and will. This year, the swan is gone, who will be next year, and who will it be?

Standing by the small puddle of the old vegetable garden, facing the increasingly barren hometown, looking at the dry and lacking green wilderness all around. "Daddy, what are you stunned about" my son's words interrupted my thoughts. I said:

"Joy, when my father was young, there were half-man-tall horses everywhere, the small puddles on the roadside could catch fish weighing half a catty, and in the autumn the large swaths of geese with the word 'man' were really charming and clear-eyed, and they sang all the way as mighty as Genghis Khan's army. ”

"Dad, are you telling the story of 'Jurassic Park'. ”

I was shocked. The father told his son about his hometown when he was a child, but the son didn't believe it, and positioned it in the "Jurassic" era, but in fact it was less than 20 years. I was distraught, and I had a hypothesis: one day the earth has fertile land and a good environment without money, will human beings survive?

I think I can.

One day, the earth becomes barren and polluted, but there are gold coins piled everywhere, can human beings survive?

I thought, definitely not.

If this assumption is true, it indicates that we have made a mistake in the direction of our evaluation of economic development.

"Joy, I'm talking about my dad's real life when he was in high school. I said.

"Dad, when you told me things I didn't understand, I always wanted you to say it quickly, and I would go out to play after I finished speaking," the son said, "Although I still don't understand this semester, I seem to be a little willing to listen, why is this?"

"Because you're moving from being a child to a teenager and you're starting to look at society with your own mind, that's real progress. ”

"My recent exam results have improved. ”

"The improvement in test scores is only a small point, what matters is the improvement of your brain. ”

"There's still progress in the brain!

"You didn't think about anything but play in your head. Now you're still paying attention to social things while you're playing. ”

"Dad, how do you know?"

"I can feel," I said, "joy, your heart is beginning to focus on life which is a great progress, and it is incomparable to the test scores." ”

"Why?"

"Exam results are a passing thing, but spiritual progress will be responsible for you for life, and it can lead you to do a lot of hard work. ”

"Sandstorm, sandstorm," the son shouted. I looked back and saw a third of the sky to the north covered with yellow clouds. The son said, "Dad, I judge so accurately." ”

"Why?"

"I've been out playing every day, and I've gained experience!" he said, "Dad, the sandstorm will come in a while, so let's go home quickly." ”

"Nope. In the past, we used to hide in the house when the sandstorm came, but today we meet it and see how it came to be. ”

About an hour later, the sandstorm was churning up and down, obscuring the sky and the sun, and a strong wind rushed over, startling two wild ducks, one large and one small, in the reeds in front of them. They were chased by the wind and screamed in the dust, like lost and dazed. Although I can't see the expression of the wild duck clearly, the cry is full of desolation, sadness and melancholy, because there are too many migratory birds, they don't know what is happening in this world, and every spring when they lead their friends and children back to their hometown, they always lose their nests along the way and never find them again, so they have less nostalgia for the land here.

Today, I originally came to look for the swan, but the words of my son "Jurassic" brought me into the confusion of "development", and I deeply felt that my soul has been polluted by economic development, and many people are trembling because of this. I pointed to the sandstorm and said:

"Joy, is the sandstorm bad?"

"Awesome. ”

In the face of bad weather, our prayers to see the swans disappear, and the unbridled sandstorm was too powerful for my idyllic imagination. I was saying solemnly, "Joy, look at the pile of factory waste under the impact of this sandstorm, the dust in the sky is completely like a battlefield of war. ”

"Pollution is new, as long as you use your brain more, there will always be a way, and I often encounter difficulties in the competition of playing, as long as I am self-motivated, I can slowly overcome it. ”

The bad weather did not make my son downcast, but he felt that the sandstorm was just a difficulty in "playing". As long as you work hard, you will always find a way to win. In the world, only the heart is moved to act.