The human need there will be no limit for when a need has been fulfilled other needs appear to be met. Therefore, human beings never ceases to create a new invention that can satisfy the human needs. Additionally, human life can not be separated from its surroundings. Both the natural environment and social environment. We need to breathe air from the surrounding environment. We eat, drink, health, the environment all require.
The neighborhood is a combination of physical condition includes a state of natural resources such as soil, water, solar energy, minerals, flora and fauna that grows on land and in the oceans, with institutions that include the creation of man as a decision on how to use the physical environment such. the environment also can mean everything that is around humans that influence the development of human life, either directly or indirectly. Environment consists of biotic and abiotic components. Abiotic components are all inanimate, such as land, air, water, climate, humidity, light, sound. While the biotic component is everything animate like plants, animals, humans and micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria).
Today, advances in technology has developed very rapidly. Technology has more than one definition. One is the development and application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help humans solve the problem. Technology is really the way and the effort to improve the quality of human life. Technology is a tool to cultivate human nature, facilitate activities and others associated with human needs. As a human activity, technology began sebelumsains and techniques. Technology made on the basis of studies with the aim to facilitate the work of man. The word technology often describe the invention and a device that uses the principle and process of the newly discovered scientific discoveries. Nevertheless, the discovery of a very old as the wheel is also called a technology.
Technology and the environment are two things that are closely related. Often technological development in the field pitted with damage to the environment, so sometimes as if there were two poles, the poles of the first technologies that impressed no matter the environment and the second polar environmentalists cynical about the progress and application of technology.
Humans are social creatures who are also categorized as Homi faber or creature workers. Humans, from time to time and wherever they are going to try to improve their welfare.
In the process, humans will use all means to make ends meet, one of which is to utilize the existing natural resources, both natural resources and renewable natural resources that can not be updated.
Along with the increasing needs of life and an increase in the number of humans, the natural resources even more and more needed. With so humans are increasingly doing in an effort to increase production to the needs of goods. Not infrequently increased production is done by the exploitation of natural resources. It has become increasingly apparent after the industrial revolution in France which produces machines that replace human labor that make the exploitation of nature is getting easier to do.
Seeing this phenomenon arises the anxiety of people who say that population growth, human needs on natural resources and technological advances are not balanced with the availability of natural resources. In addition, it was thought could lead to a new class in society, namely the emergence of capitalist society has always tried to enrich themselves though by the exploitation of nature to suppress the class below it.
In fact, humans continue to conduct research to generate new discoveries which could help alleviate the employment and or meet human needs.
Advances in technology is one application that can make life easier and more enjoyable, but the negative impact of that progress is also not small. Vehicles, for example, if the first man had to spend many days to move from one area to another, the vehicles as technology applications, the trip can be reached in just a few hours, or even sooner than that. But behind the advantage that the use of vehicles over time more and more diverse also turned negative effects such as air pollution that causes damage to the environment and waste of natural resources that can not be renewed.
The destruction of nature and environmental pollution is a serious problem facing mankind in the world today. In fact, this is one program that should be completed by 2015 dalamMillenium Development Goals (MDGs).
Indeed, in the early 1960s, these problems began to receive attention. Environmental damage caused by not cared about environmental factors in the development in various fields. The countries have pushed the United Nations to convene a conference in 1972 on the Stockholm Human and Environment, but the agreements reached can not be a powerful instrument for controlling appetite environmentally destructive capitalist.
Ecologically, the findings have implications for environmental technology. The green revolution is not a program but a system of agricultural paradigm change against tredisional who obviously did not have an impact on environmental degradation, even though there is, a very small percentage.
Vanden Shiva in his book Free of Development states that natural mortality is a major part of the threat to survival. Our earth was near death. Forests, water, soil, and air towards death. Tropical forests that serve as the creator of the world's climate, where the origin of the world's wealth has been destroyed vegetation, cut, burned and drowned.
In 1950 nearly 100 million hectares harvested. By 1975 this figure even rose to double that. In Indonesia, from news information mentioned forests cut down as much as 300 football fields per one hour.
As we know, the forest has an vital function in ensuring the survival of, for example, forests can store or collect rainwater for water consumption and can prevent disasters such as floods, landslides, and so forth.
Had the technological advances just put sophistication without considering the negative effects on the life of the real presence is not progress but rather a setback. Adverse environmental technology is a dagger stabbed from behind.
It seems that between the positive and negative effects of application of technologies such as two sides of a coin are inseparable. This is where the intellect and the human spirit tested. Make human intellect strives to minimize the negative impacts of technology to the extent that is not harmful or unacceptable natural systems that apply to humans or nature.
Begin we see the developed countries to campaign on the importance of environmental aspects so that the presence of environmentally friendly technology is the solution for a sustainable life that can be accounted for, the need for it is absolute. If not, then it will be a heavy burden for the next generation in which they would inherit garbage pollution and a myriad of environmental issues that affect the lives of the most basic. Therefore, in developed countries started to see signs recycle the packaging of a product that signifies that the packaging can be recycled, so without that bear it then the product will not be sold on the market.
But sometimes we made disappointed behind their sense of caring for the environment, it is not uncommon that only a winning business strategy for its products in the market, we are also disappointed why they did not implement environmental awareness in the countries in which their companies operate. Once satisfied dredge a country's natural wealth and natural damage and they went on as if nothing at all that they are making a mistake. They chose the best technology and are environmentally friendly but on the other hand suggest and support the application of technology that already they left because of its negative effects to a country that does have a level of mastery of technology under them.
Should we as creatures of the earth to preserve the earth and prevent it from further damage. pelestraian environment have started digalakan by some people and even countries. Environmental protection are the components of the effort to preserve the environment and its inherent function and interactions that occur between these components. The big difference in function between the components and the utilization of the development, the preservation is not understood as a restricted use. But preservation should be understood as utilization attention to the function of each component and the interactions between the components of the environment and in the end, is expected to preservation of the environment will guarantee the existence of the individual components of the environment. With the assurance of existence, sustainable environment can be realized.
Environmental protection that have been committed by all parties during this shows a lot of success and not a few who experience obstacles in achieving the objectives to be achieved in each of these aspects. Such efforts more visible as a stand-alone movement at each location, and environmental aspects of the case at hand. In addition, conservation efforts have been carried out less perceived benefit / usefulness both medium term and long term.
The call-by-call has dilantangkan and repeated annually by the nature lovers and others. However, it should be recognized there are still many shortcomings which resulted in the realization of the objectives to be achieved, namely the shape of preservation efforts undertaken is still sporadic and is not integrated with the other parts. This is the weak point of a call echoed by lovers of nature, or in other words, these efforts are not more than a mere moral movement.
This is where it is evident that intellect alone will never be enough without the intelligence of the soul. Intelligence will control the human soul to maintain the properties of humanity so that no irregularities into the animal's behavior that causes the heart to prey on others and more concerned with personal interests. Keywords still lies in the human being technology is just a tool controlled by humans. Technology applications will be very harmful and cause tremendous damage when are owned by the people of intelligent minds but dumb soul. Hence the need for people who are intelligent mind and soul is very large so as to dominate and provide optimum benefits of technology applications not only for people but the environment and nature as a whole.
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