Impacts of Science and Technology on the Environment

Topics: Environmental Penalties of High Technology, Sustainability and Social Change, Industrialization and Environment and Environment friendly Technologies

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Changing technologies, however, can have negative consequences for certain sectors or constituencies. Examples of negative aspects include pollution (including environmental, noise, and light pollution) associated with production processes, increased unemployment from labor-saving new technologies, and so forth. This suggests that society must consider the relative costs and benefits of new technologies.

 The negative effects of technology are numerous. In our march to progress we have degraded the natural world. Forests are chopped down, topsoil is washed away, rivers are polluted and our waste is dumped in the oceans.

Environmental Penalties:

• Pollution (noise,air,water)- wstes of technologies
• Conversion of forest land to urban areas
• Pollute human psychologically and emotionally-- the usage and addiction of new gadgets
• Fatal Births and Diseases--Health effects of overused technologies 

 "It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people."

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Eco-Friendly Technologies

These are sustainable technologies. It It utilizes resources from the environment without causing negative effects on it.  Some of  These are:

• Solar Energy--used of solar panels to provide electricity
• Geothermal enrgy
• Wind power --wind mills as source of energy

Narrative/ Things I Learned

The reporters presented the topic well with the use of pictures regarding the effects of technologies in our environment.

I learned that, Initially, we will argue the effect of technologies on the environment. Better equipment means that there would be more industrial development. No doubt automation is valuable for the economy, and as well as for the people existing in the country. 

Destruction of the natural environment has been taking place since the birth of civilization yet it is only now that we are seeing it on a global scale. We are holding the technology so it is up to us to use it for good and not for the destruction of the planet.

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