Wednesday, November 3, 2010
made to break/ part 2
As we have learned in the first part of this book. Waste from computers, phones, laptops and other types of communictation devices have began to pile up at an exponential rate. This is very unfortunate becuase this is the age where devices like these are really starting to take off and millions of people want them. Unfortunately, those people will get rid of their old computers, phones and laptops to make room for new ones. These devices have to go somewhere and they are. The production of all these devices are one of the reasons for global warming and the cause for many other issues, espescially health issues. Many of our old products are sold to China where they are dismantled and destroyed. Unfortunately, Chinese regulations on the safety of the disposal of these items are non-existant. This leads to various health problems among the workers and the native population. My blog my not be directly related to what we I have read in the book, but something related indirectly. This issue is much more important than the development of computers and these devices, but the consequences it brings to our world and the people living in it. Everyday, millions of Americans communicate with each other and at a very fast pace. But, we want better technology and we want it the day before yesterday. What I am saying is that we have so much technology and we are so obsessed with all this technology but at what price. For every new piece of technology created it automatically makes the old one complete. Which than becomes garbage and is sent to some far off place. This not only creates problems for those people, but it creates problems for the whole world. We are rapidly outproducing ourselves and we are rapidly losing places to throw out the garbage. This is becoming a problem, but also the issue of global warming. When we produce all of these items and than we ship them all over the Earth it emites gases into the atmosphere. We need to be aware of what we are doing to ourselves and the future of the human race.
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