Humanity, as it evolved culturally, established skills to design equipment that would make life easier. Education, among many other things, has brought technological development. Our needs have not only been aimed at food and health, we also needed distraction and what better than watching people's lives on a small screen.
Did nature stop distracting us? Flowers, animals and calm were no longer enough. And it decided to create devices that, in one way or another, are harming our nurturing mother, the Earth.
Despite the fact that the desire of most people now is to have a high-end mobile device, televisions are still being sold. It is all too strange to visit a home and not have a little entertainment box like this. But do we know the damage we are doing to the environment?
Progress and convenience, more often than not, make us forget that every act will have consequences on the planet, and unfortunately, most of what we have called progress for mankind has not been progress for mankind. From the moment a television is manufactured, polluting elements such as metals, glass and energy consumption are being used.
For years, environmental groups have been warning that if this continues, the amount of carbon dioxide CO2 emissions into the atmosphere from the use of electronic equipment will increase more and more every year. In addition, we need to start thinking about what we can do with them after we throw them away, as this stimulates recycling and can help the planet.
Sometimes there are even households that, when they see that their equipment has gone out of fashion, make an immediate change. That is why most green groups ask us to keep them until they are completely damaged, as we are just filling and filling the planet with televisions.
Another action we are asked to take is to switch them off, not to leave them on standby because consumption continues, but to disconnect them. How much could this action cost us? How many of us are doing it?
Sometimes, when I read things like this, it saddens me to see that even though we know, we are aware of everything that damages the planet, there seems to be no turning back, and we will continue to generate these practices in our children?
What would be better, leaving a clean planet or a child watching his favourite show? Could we go back? I read them.
Hi @lynnmargullys, the issue is that currently we as human beings lack an environmental culture in other words we only think of our own benefit without taking into account the side effects we cause to the planet. In the same way, sometimes we also do things out of ignorance of the subject or at least I was not aware of the consequences of the use of tv on the planet.
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That's definitely the way it is, sometimes we do harm without knowing it. That's where education plays an elementary role in understanding the environment and evaluating our actions... Thanks for visiting the blog
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