San Diego Real Estate- What’s The Future Of Our Technology and Our Mother Earth
July 31st, 2009 categories: Local San Diego News You Can Use, Selling San Diego Real Estate, William's Life in San Diego Musings
San Diego Real Estate- What’s The Future Of Our Technology and Our Mother Earth
We are still in the infancy stage of developing the technology that will become common place in our world. Technology has been developing since the dawn of civilization in one form or another. In recent decades, we are bombarded with so many different manifestations of it in our daily lives. But more recently as different ways of utilizing it come out in the market, we as consumers anxiously try to obtain as many of these latest and greatest gadgets as our budgets allow. We are filling our homes and cars with them everyday.
There is however a bigger price to pay than what we can easily afford. We are beginning to see what all these machines and the gadgets look like as they pile up in our homes, older models not being used and relegated to the garage or anyplace else we find to store them. This includes old printers, monitors, computers, PDA’s, cell phones, scanners, copiers, analog TV’s, first and 2nd generation digital cameras. If you can name it we each probably have several. Now think of all the people that must have some of these old antiquated things and you begin to see what the landfills will be looking like when theses items are incorrectly disposed of.
One day soon, we will need to strike the ultimate balance when everything we want and even create the need for, somehow integrates itself seamlessly into our homes. I imagine a day when we will have one great master system and everything we have, technology wise, will be a part of the master system.
In America, we all need our gadgets, the cell phones, iPod and mp3 players , PDA’s and laptops, video players and DVD’s, CDRoms and Scanners, copiers and printers, desk top computers and notebook PC’s and TV’s of all shapes, sizes and models. But we also continue to look to others to be responsible when it is time to rid them from our lives. There was nothing on the box that said, please return these to the manufacturer when they have served their useful life.
Mother Earth is screaming not to stuff these in her secret places and not to bury them them beneath her skin or in her waters. While she is screaming, only a few can hear her. She has been tuned out with the noise of society, the same one she comforted before they abused her. She is no longer silent, she has gathered many voices new voices, not as melodious as her voice but they’re speaking for her often.
This is pretty ironic. In an effort to save the trees by owning four computers, and “keeping it on the screen”, I”m polluting the earth with old, worn out machines.
Hi Brain, I think we all feel that way. We all believed we were doing something good and as it turns out, we are still cutting down the trees anyway and then burying all the plastic , metal and chemicals at there roots. I am not an environmentalist but we are have no real plan in place. We need a plan ( country wide) and one that motivates people to dispose of this stuff properly. The parts and pieces have some value to someone, perhaps rewarding people to collect them like they used do with appliances, household items will help keep them from the landfills.
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