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Unsustainable Course With Technology

Unsustainable Course With Technology . Team 1. Life. Graduate college and get a job Family/Friends Social Life: 3 rd of 6 kids. Make new friends Occupation: become a nuclear engineer Recreation: Enjoy playing soccer Political Life: none. Electronic Waste (E Waste).

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Unsustainable Course With Technology

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  1. Unsustainable Course With Technology Team 1

  2. Life • Graduate college and get a job • Family/Friends Social Life: 3rd of 6 kids. Make new friends • Occupation: become a nuclear engineer • Recreation: Enjoy playing soccer • Political Life: none

  3. Electronic Waste (E Waste) • E waste are electronics near the end of their “use Life” • 80 to 85 percent of electronic products were discarded in landfills or incinerators • Only 12.5 percent of e-waste is currently recycled • Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver every year. • Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

  4. Life • Personal: Always wish to be remembered as a kind person. Do good and good will be done to you. I love helping people, I think it is the most fulfilling thing someone can do. • Social: My family is my inspiration. They encourage me to do whatever it is I want to do. They believe in me. My friends are what keep me going. • Work: I hope to get a job designing orthotics and prosthetics and to think of new, innovative ways to improve them. • Recreation: I love sports. I love being active and exercise relaxes me more than anything. It is important to me to keep activity in my life always.

  5. Lack of Natural Resources • •People are only concerned with what happens in the present • •We are not looking at the bigger picture • •Demand continues to rise year after year, but the supply is constrained • •Water is declining in availability, especially in places in India and African nations • •Due to continued growth of the global population and economy, the demand for natural resources provided by Planet Earth is rapidly increasing

  6. Lack of Natural Resources Continued • They are being exploited without any bounds • Extraction process itself is damaging, but the transportation of these resources is just as harmful • Long distance transportation • Processing

  7. life • 1. To be a good person and make as many other people’s lives better as possible • 2. To have a long lasting relationship with the people who are willing to stick around • 3. To have a shack on the beach or a cabin in the woods • 4. Become an industrial engineer • 5. Skiing, pottery, drawing • 6. Don’t care much for politics

  8. Automobiles • 1. Air Pollution • - December 1970 US reported 89.9 billion miles traveled by vehicle in 2011 US reported 246.3 trillion miles traveled by car • -more than half of the air pollution is caused by cars • -greenhouse gases destroying the ozone layer • -acid rain from particles in air that car emissions give off • 2. Fluid pollution • -when fluids leak out of cars they can be damaging to the environment when they soak into the soil or find their ways to our sources of water

  9. sources • http://homeguides.sfgate.com/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-79358.html • http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/air/ozone/cars.htm

  10. LifeEbrahimAlmazrouei • Personl: I’d like to be healthy, successful and do whatever comes to my mind and achieve my dreams • Social : I’m very close to my friends and family • Work / occupation : • ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company) • Recreation: Enjoying my life, soccer, camping, etc • Political: to be active

  11. Pollution http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/health/geneva-air-pollution-carcinogenic-who/

  12. Sources • http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/issue • http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/08/the-resource-shortage-is-real/ • http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-e-waste • http://www.facts-about-recycling.com/ewaste.html

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