Technology and Ecology

Names:
Luis Castillo
Viviana Neira
Camila Pooley
Language and Society.
 Definitions
• Technology: It is the current state of humanity's
knowledge of how to combine resources to produce
desired products, to solve problems, fulfill needs, or
satisfy wants; it includes technical methods, skills,
processes, techniques, tools and raw materials. It
makes our lives easier.
• Ecology: Nature, animals, birds, plant life, forests,
oceans.(wild life)

• Can these go together?

 Bad use of technology
Hiroshima atomic bomb

•The nuclear attacks were ordered by the United

States against the Japanese Empire on August
6 & 9 of 1945, these attacks ended World War II.
• 140.000 people died in Hiroshima and 80.000
others died in Nagasaki, most of them were
civilians.
• Technology is not bad as itself, but it depends
on WHO IS IN CHARGE OF IT!
 Global Warming
• Definition: is the increase of the average the planet
earth mainly due to greenhouse gas temperature of
concentration such as; fossil fuel (CO2) and
deforestation.

• CO2 emissions top five

• 1º) EE.UU. - 2.530 millions

• 2º) China - 2.430 millions
• 3º) Russia - 600 millions
• 4º) India - 529 millions
• 5º) Japan - 363 millions
What about development and ecology in
Chile?

Do you know something about “Patagonia

sin Represas”?

Do you know about Celulosa Arauco?

In those beautiful places we can find the

most clear examples where the nature has
been destroying our planet.
 The Patagonia without Dams
in Chile
• Many hydroelectric projects are going to be built in
Chilean Patagonia, That affect directly wonderful places
and many people there.

• Many local gauchos, ranchers and community leaders

have become victims of Hidroaysen’s strategy and
increasingly accept their overwhelming presence and
predisposed themselves to either sell their lands or
hastily accept favors and presents, which in the overall
scheme of things means peanuts for a company betting
on a 4 billion dollar project. This early surrendering to the
company’s mighty wallet
 Arauco Cellulose
• Massive death of black neck swans in a nature sanctuary
called "Carlos Anwandter“ in Valdivia, Chile.
• The affected ones: All the swan population and most of
the fauna and plant life near by the Cruces river
• . This crisis has affected economically all the province
putting in danger the development of the agricultural
industry and the tourism in Valdivia.
 Conclusion
• Technologies can be used to protect
our environment and to avoid the
growing necessities that cause an
exhaustion or degradation of the
material and energetic resources of
our planet. It is not only a task of the
governments, to avoid all those
damages, but also a task of everyone,
including ourselves.