Technology And Ecology

Technology and Ecology

Names: Luis Castillo Viviana Neira Camila Pooley Language and Society.

Definitions • Technology: It is the current state of humanity's knowledge of how to combine resources to produce desired products, to solve problems, fulfill needs, or satisfy wants; it includes technical methods, skills, processes, techniques, tools and raw materials. It makes our lives easier. • Ecology: Nature, animals, birds, plant life, forests, oceans.(wild life)

• Can these go together?

Bad use of technology Hiroshima atomic bomb

•The nuclear attacks were ordered by the United States against the Japanese Empire on August 6 & 9 of 1945, these attacks ended World War II. • 140.000 people died in Hiroshima and 80.000 others died in Nagasaki, most of them were civilians. • Technology is not bad as itself, but it depends on WHO IS IN CHARGE OF IT!

Global Warming • Definition: is the increase of the average the planet earth mainly due to greenhouse gas temperature of concentration such as; fossil fuel (CO2) and deforestation. • CO2 emissions top five • • • • •

1º) EE.UU. - 2.530 millions 2º) China - 2.430 millions 3º) Russia - 600 millions 4º) India - 529 millions 5º) Japan - 363 millions

What about development and ecology in Chile? Do you know something about “Patagonia sin Represas”? Do you know about Celulosa Arauco? In those beautiful places we can find the most clear examples where the nature has been destroying our planet.

The Patagonia without Dams in Chile • Many hydroelectric projects are going to be built in Chilean Patagonia, That affect directly wonderful places and many people there. • Many local gauchos, ranchers and community leaders have become victims of Hidroaysen’s strategy and increasingly accept their overwhelming presence and predisposed themselves to either sell their lands or hastily accept favors and presents, which in the overall scheme of things means peanuts for a company betting on a 4 billion dollar project. This early surrendering to the company’s mighty wallet

Arauco Cellulose • Massive death of black neck swans in a nature sanctuary called "Carlos Anwandter“ in Valdivia, Chile. • The affected ones: All the swan population and most of the fauna and plant life near by the Cruces river • . This crisis has affected economically all the province putting in danger the development of the agricultural industry and the tourism in Valdivia.

Conclusion • Technologies can be used to protect our environment and to avoid the growing necessities that cause an exhaustion or degradation of the material and energetic resources of our planet. It is not only a task of the governments, to avoid all those damages, but also a task of everyone, including ourselves.