Essay

Since the people started creating machines, the environment has been affected. From the first motorised car to the airplanes we learned to build some decades ago. The real concern that people have is whether this advance will damage the environment around us. I will examine arguments for and against this topic and draw a conclusion based on the facts.

According to the Santa Clara University, our planet is affected by almost all of the most used energy sources, that is why we should start to rely more on renewable energy sources. People are criticising that the humanity should use more natural renewable sources of energy because they do not damage the environment. In order to advance in technology and sciences to improve people's standards of living, we don't need to harm the environment given that with our renewable sources, the damage we are creating is null. We just need to use a way to create machines within better technology, because the energy they use is not so important.

Secondly, there are too many ways to improve the standards of living.
In order to improve the standards and not damaging the environment we must find the ways that do not involve non-reneweable resources of energy, like fossil fuels.
Ways like using nuclear energy, which accordimg to the UFNPA, a whole nuclear plant creates as much waste as desktop sized box. Furthermore, the technology being used nowadays is starting to rely more on energy sources for their studies, which in the future will diminish the percentage of pollution worldwide.

However,according to the Library of  Economics and Liberty's website, before the industrial revolution, which increased the percentage of pollution, the standards were pretty bad. And after all the fossil fuels and the machines to get them were invented, the standards of living of the people increased.

On the other hand, all the pollution that was produced at the time should've  been diminished if the people had realized that it would create as much damage to the environment as it is known now.

All things considered, the way humanity has to diminish the percentage of pollution is by relying more on renewable sources of energy as much as in the nuclear energy. This way the damage to the environment will be near zero while the improvements to the standards of living of people are being studied and increased. With the use of this types of energy, the environment will be safe from pollution and the standards will improve

Bibliography. APA

1.- Argument in Favor: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/environmental_ethics/lesson7.html

Summary: This article show us that the energy that we are using not only brings benefits, but is also damaging the environment. Nuclear energy is shown as a potentially dangerous source of energy, but that brings enormous benefits because it doesn't produce greenhouse gases and the amount of waste is small compared to how much energy it produces.

2.- Counter-argument:
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html

Summary: The article explains how much the standards of living increased when the industrial revolution took place. The  point that it doesn't show us is how much the environment was being damaged while the humanity didn't noticed it. Even though the advances in science and technology they made were a lot, the damage made is impossible to recover.