Earth’s friend, Technology

“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it,” -Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States of America.

Ever since we humans have found more technological advancements arising one by one, many of us have imagined a future where technology aids others in every day of our lives. We have achieved many of our technological dreams from our older ages during the modern day. We can look outside our windows and find speedy, curved cars zooming past us, abiding by the technology of traffic lights on the roads. We can use our computers such as laptops, tablets, or smartphones to gain information that would’ve taken hours or days to find in books that everyone used to rely on 70 years ago. We can save money by accessing free light reading or school assignments through ebooks. Essentially, we as humans have learned what the discoveries of technology can do for humanity. But at the end of the day, this superpower would be useless without using its most valuable strength. The additional power to protect our planet, Earth.

Okay, let’s get straight to the point: Technology can save Earth in various ways.

In the following years of exponential growth in technology since 1980, humanity has been able to develop more industrialized farming tools, calculate weather information necessary for crop growth, locate areas best suited for agriculture, help with renewable energy production, and keep track of Earth’s resources to maintain them. By noticing this vast amount of power, one thing has recently been clear. Almost every technological advancement since the Industrial Revolution has, in some ways, helped humans survive better and many of those inventions have been able to help Earth. Because of this incredible power humanity holds, this planet’s inhabitants have been able to access and achieve more abilities than ever in protecting the environment.

Here is a better idea as to what technology has been able to do for our planet. First of all, with the invention of laptops, we can learn more about endless information that can indirectly save Earth by teaching us how to help it. Additionally, with the invention of the solar panel, we can access the power of sun energy. Plus, with the invention of the weather forecast, we can survive disasters that ruin the Earth. And let’s not forget things like temperature and moisture sensors that help regulate crop health. These are only a few of the many examples as to how tech has bettered our world since its creation.

So we discussed what technology does currently, but what can it do for Earth in the future? Well, let’s start off with the technology available to automobiles. More specifically, electric cars. As time goes on, humanity will likely use electric cars more than cars that require environment-harming fuel sources. Another technological improvement that will help our planet is something that can support Earth; however, it is not from an agricultural viewpoint. As many might know, NASA recently used a “kinetic impactor” for a test called the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) to quite literally redirect an asteroid (The asteroid’s name is Dimorphos). By changing the course of one asteroid, we will most likely be able to avoid any asteroid crashes upon Earth with multiple of this DART spacecraft in space.

Overall, with the power of technology in the modern and future ages, we can see a healthier Earth that is now much easier to live in and keep safe by using our advanced technology to protect agriculture, harvest clean energy, and restore environments one by one. To finish it all of, Stephanie Safdie stated in Greenly.earth, “[H]umans have been working on sustainable solutions for everyday needs for a long time. But today, innovative solutions to our environmental problems is now more popular — and more necessary — than ever”.