Unsustainable Course With Technology

Team 1

Life

u  Graduate college and get a job

u  Family/Friends Social Life: 3rd of 6 kids. Make new friends

u  Occupation: become a nuclear engineer

u  Recreation: Enjoy playing soccer

u  Political Life: none

Electronic Waste (E Waste)

u  E waste are electronics near the end of their “use Life”

u  80 to 85 percent of electronic products were discarded in landfills or incinerators

u  Only 12.5 percent of e-waste is currently recycled

u  Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver every year.

u  Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

Life

u  Personal: Always wish to be remembered as a kind person. Do good and good will be done to you. I love helping people, I think it is the most fulfilling thing someone can do.

u  Social: My family is my inspiration. They encourage me to do whatever it is I want to do. They believe in me. My friends are what keep me going.

u  Work: I hope to get a job designing orthotics and prosthetics and to think of new, innovative ways to improve them.

u  Recreation: I love sports. I love being active and exercise relaxes me more than anything. It is important to me to keep activity in my life always.

Lack of Natural Resources

u  •People are only concerned with what happens in the present

u  •We are not looking at the bigger picture

u  •Demand continues to rise year after year, but the supply is constrained

u  •Water is declining in availability, especially in places in India and African nations

u  •Due to continued growth of the global population and economy, the demand for natural resources provided by Planet Earth is rapidly increasing

Lack of Natural Resources Continued

u  They are being exploited without any bounds

u  Extraction process itself is damaging, but the transportation of these resources is just as harmful

u  Long distance transportation

u  Processing

life

u  1. To be a good person and make as many other people’s lives better as possible

u  2. To have a long lasting relationship with the people who are willing to stick around

u  3. To have a shack on the beach or a cabin in the woods

u  4. Become an industrial engineer

u  5. Skiing, pottery, drawing

u  6. Don’t care much for politics

Automobiles

u  1. Air Pollution

u  - December 1970 US reported 89.9 billion miles traveled by vehicle in 2011 US reported 246.3 trillion miles traveled by car

u  -more than half of the air pollution is caused by cars

u  -greenhouse gases destroying the ozone layer

u  -acid rain from particles in air that car emissions give off

u  2. Fluid pollution

u  -when fluids leak out of cars they can be damaging to the environment when they soak into the soil or find their ways to our sources of water

sources

u  http://homeguides.sfgate.com/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-79358.html

u  http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/air/ozone/cars.htm

Life Ebrahim Almazrouei u  Personl: I’d like to be healthy, successful and do whatever comes to my mind

and achieve my dreams

u  Social : I’m very close to my friends and family

u  Work / occupation :

u  ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company)

u  Recreation: Enjoying my life, soccer, camping, etc

u  Political: to be active

Pollution

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/health/geneva-air-pollution-carcinogenic-who/

Sources

u  http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/issue

u  http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/08/the-resource-shortage-is-real/

u  http://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-e-waste

u  http://www.facts-about-recycling.com/ewaste.html