Technology is something that help ease our daily work ranging from transportation, communications, manufacturing, production, etc. Also as these technologies are helping, they come with a negative impact which can affect us health wise and can affect the earth at large. These effect are beyond to the extent that they are affecting us severely due to pollution, disaster, and finally affect the ecosystem in bad ways.
Focusing on the negative impact of this modern technologies, I will dwell more on air pollution.
What is Air pollution
Many author have defined this term but all it means in a simple way is that "Air pollution is the discharge of harmful substances into the air and which can lead to harmful effect to man health".
The world have been battling with air pollution for many decades today and presently. Being a serious problem, many have lost their lives due to air pollution that is caused by modern technologies. Countries in the world have been trying to reduce the rate of contamination of the air around them but still experiencing difficulties eradicating this issues. Some of the major things that cause air pollution in a city are mostly industries, car exhaust, bush burning etc. These are things man do to suite is stay in a city which sometimes are good to man but in turn hurt him in return due to excessive use. For instance, car, industries are things that help man sustain a living but the exhaust they release lead to air pollution and this tend to deplet the ozone laying causing man to the exposure to direct sunlight. The direct sunlight cause lot of disease to man.
Ways to reduce air pollution in the community
Due air pollution can not be eradicated fully but can be reduce drastically in the following ways:
1. Industries should be sited at a place away from people
2. Car that produce excess exhaust should be ban on the road
3. Bush burning should be discourage
4. Awareness on danger of air pollution should be done
5. Government should enact a law to force people disengage on air pollution. Etc.
To conclude, the claim ‘The demand for modern technology has not affected how minerals and metals are obtained and used, or the health of the environment.’ Is refuted. The demand for modern technology has changed the way minerals and metals are obtained and used, and it has also affected the health of the environment. One of the best ways to reduce e-waste is to keep your electronics well maintained. If you keep them well maintained that would increase their life. If you have ‘dead’ electronic you need to recycle and dispose of your electronic/e-waste properly. You can find electronic recycling programs in your local area and dispose of your electronics there or some electronic brands have given the option to customers to recycle old electronics. By doing the suggested it can save a lot of energy and reduce the need for mining of new raw resources or manufacturing new parts.
The high rate of smoke have lead to hole in the ozone layer