Hlaue makes a point an excellent point as she established that if we are to use technology for our environmental problems, we first ought to address the root causes. It seems that many people are confident that technology can be used in a positive manner to reduce carbon emmissions.Indeed, many corporations, cities, and governments have come up with "Green Codes" or clean enery iniciatives that will reduce our fossil fuel consumption and create greater enery efficiency. Even Thomas Friedman has laid out the missin of statement of this new movement, "To built a technologically advance America, a shining green city on a hill and then the Chinese will emulate us". Yet it is important to understand that there is much more than a mission statement to resolve the environmental crisis.
Technology can absolutely be used in a positive manner by focusing in the creation of products that can lower their impact in the environment. It seems that cleaner technology might be our savior, yet we cannot leave behind the social and economic aspects that motivate us to actually make use this "new technology". There are great ideas in mind, even the United States plans to cut carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020. However, for this transformation to occur we must also acknowledge how will this technology complement our social and economic plans we as individual have, as local communities and as a nation. For this reason, I strongly believe that it is crucially important to include these sectors too; cleaner technology is not our savior.
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