How Will the New Technologies Aid the Environment and Standard of Living?

Since 1980s, along with economic development, environmental issues have become increasingly prominent global impact. Not only a regional environmental pollution and massive ecological destruction, but also greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, global climate change, acid rain, species extinction, desertification, forests dropped, transboundary pollution, marine pollution, wildlife species reduction, rainforest reduction, soil erosion and other global environmental crisis, are threatening to the survival and development of

In today's hectic world people work longer hours and utilize more technology and energy more than ever. The impact that this is having on the environment is substantial in both negative and positive ways. It is hard to deny the benefits modern technology has produced for the world, in industry and in everyday life. With more and more technological breakthroughs, there have been many positive ecological impacts, but the negative impacts are almost overwhelming. A Perfect example would be the deforestation of our rain forests.

The world is changing, well the environment is. For many years mankind has been finding ways to make Earth easier and liveable,therefore, we have been cutting down various trees, building houses and industries to make Earth more adaptable for humankind.These mass productions are polluting our environment due to the fact that carbon dioxide is being released to the atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has had a very distructive consequence,Global warming.Global warming started around the 1880’s around 40 years after the Industrial Revolution in America.As a consequence of global warming the climate change on the Earth has had lethal impacts.Humankind has came up with ways to help control the amount of

Every day when looking out a window, people see a beautiful earth. The earth is intriguing, but hinges on a delicate balance. Many natural resources keep the grass green and the sky blue. Man has made quite an impression on our world, and has transformed the earth's resources into tools to make life easy. However, mans' manipulation on earth has become detrimental to the health of our planet and the safety of mankind. Through the use and production of resources such as oil and energy, man is gradually poisoning the earth. Pollution has become such a dilemma in society; there is no real control or a feasible solution to society's recklessness. Without complete change, our system will collapse. The earth will eventually retaliate with disaster, or corporate control of our economy will cause hysteria and depression. Evaluation of the consequences and repercussion of worldwide pollution, may give people a better idea of what the future holds.

The environment is becoming weak and defecated through a rise in industrialization. Increasing industry has caused many environmental issues and disasters to occur such as earthquakes, air pollution, and further medical issues for people.

In 150 years from now, the world will change drastically. We will have extreme environmental changes, severe changes in our languages and significant changes in human evolution. First, since the environment is changing over the years, going forward, we will try and find a way to save and create energy simply by installing solar panels on every building to convert sun waves into energy. Global warming has been a struggle, getting worse and worse every year, so that leads us to think that in the future, the ice caps in Antarctica will have all likely been melted. More people tend to throw their recycles or composts in the trash rather than taking the time to sort out what goes in which bin. Since we have been doing this for more than 100 years, it is more likely that we will not be able to reverse the damage we have done to the planet. Therefore the pollution will not get better but we can try to keep it from getting worse.

I believe all aspects of life have their pros and cons. While technology has advanced our society in ways we thought impossible thirty years ago, it may have also been detrimental to ourselves in ways we never even imagined. In today's world, we face a huge lack of privacy. Surely, the technological impacts have exponentially changed society.

The world is frequently changing. With an increase in technology, and populations there is a need for more resources. The competition of resources could potentially deplete the natural resources over time unless it is continually restored. This has however, become a pretty arduous task with factors such as global warming coming into play. Global warming has especially played a pretty crucial role in the rising of sea levels and even the extreme temperature changes. Over time, these changes could presumably get worse affecting the populations they entail.

How has Social Media through technology changed society the most? Does technology isolate people from the real world, or augment our personal relationships? Are moral values a concern when one can hide in anonymity without consequences of how it affects others? Has anyone noticed the temptation to give precedence to people who are not physically next to them? In this writer’s opinion, there is a vast absence of humility, self-control, honesty, forgiveness and fairness on social platforms. Social media, as with any communication medium, comes with many ups and downs, pros and cons; though, overall, technology and staying in contact with loved ones are magical gifts; the world is becoming a disturbing place.

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With the change in living trends in todays modernized society there is an appeal for such products to “go green.” Clorox’s new line, Green Works, attracts a special ground of today’s nature friendly and environment oriented consumers who do not want to buy products from companies that cause bad effects on the environment. With the help of the media and people, they have put a good perception of the company in the minds of the consumers. The most important factor is to keep the consumer behavior in mind by using cell phones, videos, social networking campaigns through newspapers and radios to build the brand value for the company and its products. However, the company has controversy allegations that may cause problems for the company such as the prices of the products, skeptism of how well the products will work mainly because most people see Clorox as a “bleach” company and some students may just not care enough about the eco-friendly products.

Today we begin to think if technology is even here to help anymore or if it’s here to manipulate the minds and the moral intensions of today’s people. Genetically engineered (GE) plants, animals, and humans have become too personal because we eat genetically modified foods everyday and although scientists may think they’re curing us, they don’t think of possible effects that may harm us. When society and our environment starts to get affected by it, we wonder if this specific technology should be available to any and everyone.

Over the past 10,000 years, humans have modified and altered the natural environment. From agriculture to industrialization, humans have changed the environment affecting the atmosphere and its surroundings. The growth in world population is masking a more important human-environmental interaction. While the world’s population is doubling, the world’s urban population is tripling. Within the next few years, more than half of the world will be living in urban areas (Torrey). It is now 2015 and a prediction made over a decade ago has become true. More than half of the world lives in urban areas. The world has shifted from becoming primarily rural and self-sustaining to urban and dependent. Humans pair progress with innovation meaning that if

Before the use of technology, humans had to solely rely on the environment to fulfill their daily needs. Humans respected, and even feared nature for its destructive capabilities. Before the use of technology, humans were connected with nature at an almost spiritual level. They knew how to use the environment and sustain it at the same time. Before technology, there was a natural balance between nature and humans. Unfortunately, as humans developed by advancing in industry and technology, a lot of the respect and fear once held for nature was lost, which lead to an increase in the occurrences of environmental problems. The more humans used technology, the more they imposed themselves on the environment, and the more their connection with

The increase of pollution and its effect, economically, is big-huge even. Environmental degradation is the destruction of the ecosystem of the Earth through consumption of environmental assets such as fossil fuels and minerals, or through pollution, of the air, water, and soil. The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction defines it as “the lessening of the limit of the earth to meet social and environmental destination, and needs”. Any change in an environment that is proven to be undesirable to wildlife, including plants, insects, animals, and nature’s cycles characterize destruction. This loss of habitat is at a rapid growth, with the expansion of human population, comprised with excessive exhaustion of polluting technologies, such as cars, power plants, without excluding polluting factors like abundance of unrecyclable garbage. Being one the largest threats to mankind as it has led to global warming, environmental degradation is a greater threat to civilization than other materialistic issues, like the economy, as degradation can impact human health, lead to a loss biodiversity, and can lead to economic issues.