It is controversial that human activities have made the Earth more endangered and polluted. People use lots of resources of mother Earth and waste many things those are still valuable. However, I strongly believe that Human activities have made the Earth a more enhanced and improved place for human.
First, Human activity has made the Earth a convenient place to live. Especially, the development of transportation and telecommunications made the Earth more valuable. Just 100 years ago, we can only use ships or wagons to go other continentals, and those take several days to arrive. But today, we can go anywhere in the Earth only 1 day by using airplane. One more step, the development of telecommunication brings us to talk anyone who is in the Earth right now, right here. It cannot be even imagine 50 years before. This is really fantastic result. To take a personal example, when I was young, I can only take news from TV, newspaper, magazine or etc. that is a restricted one-way street. But these days I can reach that by internet, Wi-Fi in particularly, through my little mobile terminal. This means that I can observe the information much easily and even exchange my opinion directly and simultaneously. In this respect, the effect of Human activities develops the Earth more efficiently.
Furthermore, human activities have solved basic human needs. Since the human being advents in the Earth, we always have serious problems like hunger, diseases and natural disasters. Technologies from human effort can control these problems and satisfy our basic needs for survive. Agricultural innovation produces several times of food that is provided in same period. 50 years ago, many people who live in Korea suffered starving and famine even though Korea is agricultural country. In 2010, Korean doesn’t have this kind of problem anymore, even focusing on high industrial technology than agriculture. This is definitely caused by technologies from human activities.
To summarize, I firmly believe that human activities have enhanced and improved the Earth. This is because human inventions and researches have solved inconvenient environment and human’s basic needs. As I mentioned above, I believe that technologies from human activities is vital factor of the Earth. |