Monday, June 23, 2008

QUESTION OF THE SPHERE #2 from Technosphere

How does technology affect the environment?

8 comments:

psandroni said...

It can effect in a positive or negative way. Technology has increased over the yeears and has helped enviormentalists very much. Unlike some technological advances others require more polutants like oil and other fossil fuels. As more and more things are changing, more people need to be involved in knowing about the enviorment. Although the changes might be positive or negative it always impacts us and the world around us.

Peyton Sandroni
Geosphere

psandroni said...

Technology can affect the Earth both positive and negative ways. Newer technology helps scientists to understand the enviornment and how to help it. Some of the negative ways are how more and more people are using more things which require more fossil fuels that are bad for the enviornment. Allthough more and more things are being invented, more of those things help the Earth, and that is what matters.

Peyton Sandroni
Geosphere

Anonymous said...

I think that technology can affect our eviorment in many good and bad ways. A good way that technology affects our eviorment is that it can spread the word about sometihing that could help our eviorment. And it can also help reduce cars on the road because of IM and e mail you can talk and share things with the people without having to go to their house to talk or show something. A way techonology can be bad for our eviorment is that most people computers and technology equipment runs on electricity and when we use electricity it takes from our natural resources, insteaad people should find alrernate ways of energy to run our technological equipment.

-Austin W. Biosphere

Anonymous said...

Matthew D. geo 2008
Technology can be good for the environment. For example the computer can be a great source for knowledge about the environment. I learned at Bregs that every time you rip a piece of styrofoam it realeses 4 atoms of carbon into the air. To help make a change in the use of styrofoam, I used the computer to go on Chick-fil-a's website. I told them I like their food but their styrofoam cups are affecting the air and environment. I am hoping they will respond soon.

Anonymous said...

Technology affects the enviornment in many ways both positive and negative. One positive way is in allowing us to record temperture changes, and other enviormental statistics wich can be used track climate change and other weather changes; which in turn helps in farming. Technology also helps create more eco friendly farming techniques. Technology can also effect our enviornment in negative ways. Such as producing more polution in streams and in the air which kills important plants and animals. Thechnology such as lawnmowers creates sound pollution. Also the sedimentary pollution caused by heavy equipment around water ways deminishes the populations. As one can see thechnology affects our enviorment in many ways both good and bad.

Michaela G.
GlobalSphere

Anonymous said...

Well, there is the new, better, more efficient technology that helps the environment and the older technology that isn't as good for the environment.

The new technology, the screw-in fluorescent light bulbs, solar-powered electronics, even rechargable batteries, all are more efficient and helps to cut down on pollution and the overall breakdown of our planet. On the other hand, the older technology, non-rechargable batteries, fossil fuel powered factories, even CRT televisions that use tubes hurt the environment. With both of these in mind we can't say that our current technology helps the environment or that it hurts it, it does both.


~ Karl Rauschelbach/Globalsphere

Anonymous said...

Technology affects the enviorment in many ways both positive and negative. One way technology is benefical to our enviornment is in creating new farming techniques that are more eco friendly. Also it helps by allowing us to record temperature changes and other severe climate changes which inturn help in determining the weather; that can be useful in farming. Technology also affects our enviorment in ways no so beneficial to the enviroment. One way technology has a negative impact on our enviorment is by creating an increse in air pollution. Also equipment such as lawnmowers and tractors create sound pollution which has an impact on the enviornment. Another negative impact occurs when heavy equipment levels land near water ways creating sedimentary pollutions that deminishes the population. As one can see technology effects our enviorment in ways both good and bad.

Michaela G.
Global Sphere

Anonymous said...

Any advancement in technology is good for us. For the environment , however, it depends.Technology like solar powered machinery use natural power and are better for the environment. Things that are mass produced in big factories, though, are consuming mass amounts of coal and spitting it back out into the the air in mass quantities. Thus creating smog, which is bad for the environment.

victoria l. sociosphere