They argue the Buy Nothing Day would wake the world to take on the environmental problems that consumerism has created. This argument is flawed. and wrong. Consumerism has created new ways of recycling products and much more. Companies are forced to create safer products for the public to use, and also learn to make better with fewer resources.
An example of reducing waste is the behavior of recycling. However, with matters such as pollution and waste that affect the world drastically, and social structures that have been put in place to regulate these areas, people still focus on technologies that still hinder the world instead of building self sustainable projects have a positive effect on the longevity of Earth that exists today. Richard Sclove’s article, “I’d Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture”, provides a detailed explanation of his theory of how technology plays in someone’s everyday role. It is up to each individual to define how they will allow technology to play a role in their life, and to what
The detractors are concerned of genetic engineering being used to enhance human beings, such as muscle enhancement and height enhancement, which will resign genetically-altered individuals to particular life choices, such as children engineered for musical talent going into music and children engineered for great athletic prowess going into sports (Sandel 7). Genetic engineering also gives an unfair advantage to genetically-altered people, such as a basketball player with genetically-engineered height having an advantage over non-altered basketball players (Sandel 29). Genetic engineering is also very dangerous, with one of the concerns regarding the prospect of inadvertently releasing a genetically-altered organism into the environment, with no known method of controlling it or, if it proves dangerous, known method of defending against it (Hill, 223). The supporters of genetic engineering argue that even without the influence of genetic engineering, people are still at the mercy of the genetic lottery and have no control over the genetics that they are born with, and their genetic makeup still influences their life choices, such as a man with dwarfism making a poor professional basketball player (Sandel 7). Also, even without
Phatcharapol Mongkolkamarat Genetics Engineering Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Phatcharapol Mongkolkamarat, and today I would like to explain genetic engineering, The use of Genetic Engineering will change the world dramatically this century. Already people are being genetically modified to cure genetic diseases and disabilities. Now the questions being asked, should we enhance the human species using this technology? Creating a human without imperfections would only cause discrimination to those that have not undergone genetic editing. It would also cause competition and tension among different kinds of genetically engineered humans for dominance and power.
Through the years people have had the mentality that the advancement of technology will lead to the advancement of human civilization. However there are others who think just the opposite and one of them is Ray Bradbury. Bradbury uses imagery in both Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles to show that the advancement of technology will eventually lead to the decay of human society. Fahrenheit 451 is a book that takes place in the future and in a society that has transformed into almost a dictatorship because of technology. An effect of technology that is shown very clearly in the book was that it made people less social even with their close ones.
We see a world were technology is supreme and greater knowledge has diminished society. Science has attempted to make living easier though has it actually benefited humanity? Ridley Scott has predicted a world in 2019 based on the incredibly fast advancements in technology based when he created the movie. It depicts his and others from the times fear that use of knowledge would ultimately farm humanity. In blade runner the current world has transformed so far past comfortable that some are moving to alternate planets.
This proceeds with the question; what advancements are moral? I believe that any science, innovation, study, or sort of exploration must be morally just, intended to better our understanding of the world, and be created with intention to improve any part of society. For example, the formation of the first rocket ship was monumental in bringing exploration to the new frontier and impacted our society for the better. Therefore this invention would be considered moral and for positive advancement. On the contrary, the scientific creation of something such as the nuclear bomb could be considered scientific expansion for the worse as it can provide horrible outcomes and is lethal if put in the wrong hands; thus classified as
Gattaca shows us how the world will be a better place if people were genetically altered, but it also shows us how the world would be a tough place for people who weren’t genetically
Cloning seems like such an amazing thing to discover; the power over DNA manipulation might have baffled us and gotten us excited, but it is not something that is ethical. If the ability to modify the DNA of human beings is allowed to be practiced, there will be no end to what unnatural thing we will do. The technological advances that have been made in health have benefited us immensely but neither therapeutic nor reproductive cloning are wise uses of our new found knowledge. There is no doubt that with this technology, we will soon want to design our unborn children. When this becomes possible, it will not only change the process of child conception into a manufacturing process but also segregate the designer children and the naturally conceived children into two separate social classes that will eventually segregate the
In terms of the relationship between humans and nature I would say we are a long way away from solving our major problem which is maintaining the earth so it can sustain us. So I would say the relationship is somewhat skewed. However on the question if reading this book has changed any thoughts in my mind? I will say not really but if you consider increasing the level and reminding me of how important the Earth is to humanity a change I will gladly answer as yes it did change my thoughts. I would recommend more people to read this book because of its thought provoking ability towards awareness of human’s responsibility on the face of this