Technology Has Helped Destroy The Planet
Technology Has Helped Destroy The Planet
Mankind has remained selfish from the very start of its existence. It wanted to shield itself from the harsh blinding storms hence killed deer to use its skin to make clothes. Humans wanted shelter hence started the process of cutting down trees and building homes. Mankind has been the ravenous resource thirsty wild beast who has with the aid of technology been able to conquer yet destroy its motherland-Earth.
Humans are greedy. The great visionary Mahatma Gandhi once quoted “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” Hence Technology has become a weapon for every man to fulfil his need and wants. But in this process it is Earth which is being destroyed. Oil which is every man’s lifeline causes a great deal of destruction during extraction. Searching and extraction of oil requires strip mining, drilling in environmentally sensitive areas which inadvertently results in deforestation and evitable and unnecessary pollution.
My opponent may argue that we are using technology to reverse and prevent further damage such as inventing battery charged and low emission cars and using non renewable energy. In fact, a recent study revealed that when the effects of deforestation were taken into account, supposedly the “clean” bio fuels caused higher CO2 emissions than those caused by the consumption of regular oil.
In United States, the use of corn to produce ethanol has resulted in skyrocketing grain prices, leading in turn to severe food shortages in the developing world. In a world where inflation and poverty is a rife do we actually require technology to further become a burden and decrease the standard of living? In Brazil, an explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has spurred a dramatic explosion of agriculture, which has accelerated the deforestation of the Amazon rainforests. So please enlighten me whether these environmentally responsible inventions are further destroying the planet
Mankind has remained selfish from the very start of its existence. It wanted to shield itself from the harsh blinding storms hence killed deer to use its skin to make clothes. Humans wanted shelter hence started the process of cutting down trees and building homes. Mankind has been the ravenous resource thirsty wild beast who has with the aid of technology been able to conquer yet destroy its motherland-Earth.
Humans are greedy. The great visionary Mahatma Gandhi once quoted “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” Hence Technology has become a weapon for every man to fulfil his need and wants. But in this process it is Earth which is being destroyed. Oil which is every man’s lifeline causes a great deal of destruction during extraction. Searching and extraction of oil requires strip mining, drilling in environmentally sensitive areas which inadvertently results in deforestation and evitable and unnecessary pollution.
My opponent may argue that we are using technology to reverse and prevent further damage such as inventing battery charged and low emission cars and using non renewable energy. In fact, a recent study revealed that when the effects of deforestation were taken into account, supposedly the “clean” bio fuels caused higher CO2 emissions than those caused by the consumption of regular oil.
In United States, the use of corn to produce ethanol has resulted in skyrocketing grain prices, leading in turn to severe food shortages in the developing world. In a world where inflation and poverty is a rife do we actually require technology to further become a burden and decrease the standard of living? In Brazil, an explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has spurred a dramatic explosion of agriculture, which has accelerated the deforestation of the Amazon rainforests. So please enlighten me whether these environmentally responsible inventions are further destroying the planet