Nature Destruction

Science and its practical application have brought many benefits to society but have also at times been a source of profound social harm. This has particularly occurred when the uses of scientific knowledge have strayed outside the ethical boundaries of society, or escaped lawful political control. While countries collapse, economies fail and the social environment of regions takes drastic turns for the worse - nature weeps. A lack of government restrictions on environmental laws and availability of weapons in general, either lawfully or unlawfully has vastly impacted the natural environment.
Science makes our lives more comfortable through inventions such as air conditioners, heaters and cars. We do not realise that our comfort as human beings has come at the expense of nature. According to a UN report, continuing destruction of the natural world is affecting the health, wealth and well-being of people around the globe.
Hurricanes and typhoons, storm surges, tsunamis and the like can cause massive, though usually temporary, disruptions in the life cycles of ocean plants and animals. Human activities, however, are significantly more impactful and persistent. High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels, are absorbed by the oceans, where the gas dissolves into carbonic acid. This elevated acidity inhibits the ability of marine animals, including many plankton organisms, to create shells, disrupting life within the very foundation of the ocean's food web.

Widespread deforestation in the Amazon forest and the melting of the ice cap in Antarctica is an example of this, since, all raw materials that aid scientific progress and research come from the flora and fauna that our planet sustains. Once, the greed of humans and the misuse of science reaches its epitome, all will be lost.