W11 Draft: Academic Paper Part 01
Is technology helping or harming our environment? Many of the technologies we use every day consume a lot more resources and power than they need to, and using and manufacturing them can create a mess through pollution, waste, and more. Carbon emissions, primarily carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, are greenhouse gasses produced by humans. Greenhouse gasses are gasses in the atmosphere that trap heat and radiation and reflect it back to the earth's surface. Carbon emissions are released into the atmosphere by cars, planes, power plants, and factories. They are also released by people like you when you use a vehicle or electricity generated by burning fossil fuels. The computer you are reading this uses electricity, as does your mobile device and video game system. In recent events, scientists are arguing if climate change could be a result of environmental change. Climate change is a new concept of the 1990s which is concerned with the long-term shifts in temperatures and we...