Technology At The Cost Of Environment
The innovative and creative human mind has given a new direction to the world, given the best luxurious lifestyle, and with new inventions & globalized technicality made life very comfortable, but at what cost all are we running after the glittery world?
Importance of Technology & Its Harmful Effects
Technology and new inventions are priceless assets, making the world connect in a small handy device, a modern way of communicating through modern means of transport, and robotic intelligence has given birth to new revolutionary diversity in the technical world. Those innovative devices or revolutionary make work easier, faster, and save time.
Ignoring the truth and facts, humans are destroying the ecosystem, nature, wildlife, and natural resources, which are more important for mental & physical health for the survival of all the existing species.
It is making the human species’ immune system weaker, lethargic, privacy at risk, emotionless, and greedy. Above that, the automated machinery process of working is replacing humans, becoming one of the causes of unemployment.
Technology Destroying The Planet
Technology has played a toxic role in causing air pollution, industrial waste, and climate disturbance, affecting the ozone layer, which absorbs the harmful UV radiation from the earth. Those radiations make the air and water polluted; All the species of ‘the planet earth’ are surviving on those two natural resources, but for the ease and materialistic kind of life, humans are turning to self-destruction and manufacturing the most dangerous weapons against themself and all the other species. Our future is blank, and we are running after the darkness of evilness because of momentary fake glitters and destroying our natural abilities.
TECHNOLOGY IS A MUST BUT AT WHAT COST?
Modern electronic gadgets contain toxic components such as mercury, lead, polybrominated, barium, and lithium, resources used to run those heavy gadgets and leave their carbon footprints in the atmosphere. New technology comes in, and old machinery gadgets get retired; the worst part is electronic gadgets types of machinery get manufactured with mixed components such as plastic, metal, and glass. That makes recycle process very challenging, and the e-waste ratio is much higher than the recycling process. That is very dangerous for humans and the environment, as those toxic & deadly chemicals make the ground-level air and water contaminated. 57.4 Mt (Million Metric Tonnes) of e-waste was generated in 2021, which will go up by 120 Mt per year by 2050.
Negative Impacts Of Excess Technology
Mining For Natural Mineral Resources
The environment is paying the cost of technology. It is necessary to consider what toxic material is getting mixed with the resources for manufacturing gadgets or machines. Precious natural resources like zinc, copper and aluminum are involved in manufacturing. Digging out the natural minerals consumes high energy and a high carbon cost that releases Carbon dioxide. Mining is also responsible for water pollution, forest demolition, and landscapes.
High Power Consumption & Carbon Footprints
The Mining of resources is the beginning of the exploitation of the environment. The components mixed with raw materials in the process of manufacturing highly advanced machines or gadgets require massive energy consumption to make it a sophisticated-complex technological product that is more dangerous. Those manufacturing power plants release carbon and toxic gases, which are responsible for the birth of multiple disorders and diseases in humans and animals because the carbon footsteps are spreading the pollution in the air and water.
After manufacturing, the usage of those sophisticated temporary products repeats all of the toxic processes, and air & water pollution is the best example. Any means of transport, home appliances, gadgets, and machines produce air, water, and noise pollution. After a few years of highly advanced technical machinery becomes the e-waste, and the junk waste increases by an average of approximately 2% per year.
Technology Companies are doing no less than terrorism, as competition between the companies results in a technology disaster.
The solution is there, but technology comes with complications, and advanced technology companies are taking advantage. For the benefits and competitive market, companies don’t allow their brainy-minded employees to disclose the hidden facts about resolving the issues from the users of complicated devices. That leads the user to buy new environmental junk. As all are so much dependent on ‘e-junk devices.’ For example, in the greed of profit, they build planned obsolescence into their products and hide the fact of the resolution, so the customer of dependable products can use that device for a limited period.
Deadly weapons
The creative mind is not limiting the destruction to the atmosphere only or those greedy devices manufacturers.
In a complicated technological world, some human minds are busy with new inventions, and those masterminds are responsible for manufacturing the deadliest weapons for the “protection of their countries.” The government of those countries allows those masterminds to work with arming companies to manufacture weapons that can destroy or end another country in the blink of an eye. The nuclear attack in 1945 World War 2 was just a trailer. Since then, humans only have created those destructive weapons got so much advanced and destructive that one button can destroy the MANKIND.
Conclusion
Mining, pollution, carbon released in the whole process complex e-waste, and deadly weapons disturbance in the environment caused by the interference of the creative human mind have disturbed the atmosphere. That is global warming and the shifting causing the core of the earth’s magnetic fields.
The human species have created technology, weapons, and gadgets. But those materialistic junks cannot become humans and upgrade themselves to compete with its upgrade version. Still, the creative species is running behind the technology, and all the operative systems of that e-waste are in the hand of technical developers.
The question remains the same, “when the destruction of the environment will get controlled?”
Crux Of All Environmental Junk & Suggested Solutions
What those advanced weapons or highly advanced machinery will do if the human brains will not remain behind to operate them?
Without innovative minds, any technology is just a waste. We can reduce technology’s harmful effects on your beautiful nature environment significantly. As consumers create the demand, customers are among us only, and we often have more power than multinational billionaire companies. The belief of every consumer in making a positive, leaving technology behind for; the sake of a healthy & safe future will create a positive impact on our beautiful nature, and environmental protection can bring change. That will make our natural resources recover. In the race for development or upgrading with technology, we are using our natural resources in a negative way. Not giving the chance to reproduce to our nature to produce natural minerals.
All humans earn for their families and wellness. Even multinational company owners are humans and want a healthy and clean environment to survive. Every species on this planet needs fresh air and clean water for survival. At what cost do we need the disputes and war, and why is a need to manufacture deadly weapons?
Written By : Ankur Verma
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