The Environmental Cost of Modern Digital-Industrial Revolutionby Xolani Mnisi | 29-08-2020 20:47 |
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The Environmental Cost of Modern Digital-Industrial Revolution The world,at a fast pace of a glance is undoubtedly connecting-at an expensive cost though aswel. With the high demand for technology usage the cost to fully effectively and efficiently participate at an enhanced and advanced spectrum continues to account greater need environmental sustainability consideration aswel. Though such said to guarantee to reward a prolonged future viable and feasible transformation, urgent adjustments and realignments towards technology has been a central conversation for the order be rectified inorder to award a worth-suitable conservative environment. The World Economic Forum(WEF) has projected estimated trillion dollars of electronic waste at market value. Electronic devices:mobiles,computers,radios of a few are primarily most components which underpin the generation of such major waste. Furthermore,the organization par fellow media houses have reported that greater major environmental destruction and obstruction has been done onto the environment and nature,as matter of fact; dilapidating the actual prospects of restoration and stabilization. Amid such a scourge,oceans and rivers are main vulnerable polluted nature being-recipients features discarded electronic waste materials having decontaminated,decomposing along below sea,shores and above high lying area zones like beaches.These material constitute of mineral components such as gold,aluminum,copper etc of which pose harmful and harzardous and detrimental environmental repercussions. Economic systems mostly comprises of informal sector been established unveiling the opportunity of conducting illegal e-waste trade practices and illegal market locaton(scrapyards&recycling)plants to obtain precious mineral resource components,as evidentally evidently seen member of India,Bangladesh etch. A call for fostered and facilitated(bolstered) integrated collaboration-approach to ensure a foreseeable growth and developmental momentum in socio-economic and environmental policies are entirely and solely advocated at all times.Thus,the World Economic Forum has encouraged greater need partnership in decision and policy-making target areas from all key policy players and active participants:labor,activists,government and institutions constituting business and enterprises to actively develop and surpass ideologies and plans as counteractive measures of environmental sustainability practices. It is through such that greater motivation and inspiration addressed by a call for a turnaround strategy.In this advent with the acknowledgement of climate change and global warming,e-waste pollution per say as dominant force and sphere it sustained being recognized incorporation within the ¡°World Economic Forus(WEF) 2019 Global Risk Report¡±. Therefore a risk adjustment and mitigation approach had been produced.Such proposes a practical recognition and solution framework.Business has adopted this adaptation sense as commodity mining corporates developed review measures towards productivity by reducing emissions,trade and logistics firms selecting energy and carbon neutral options more so also are technology companies promising safer energy adoption and inclusive methodological practices intra data and storage, exchange,device production all position as feasible positive factors. Furthermore the introduction of global environmental sustainability initiatives mostly ¡°Earth Hour¡± and ¡°Climate Strike¡± continues to empower immense stronger actions for value driven motives for both human-environment upliftment.Technology serves as key cornerstone of information exchange and knowledge management of such initiatives to address the e-waste challenge. However it over the past years,it is inevitably undoubtedly that worlds current experienced and endured socio-economic are underpinned by e-waste which causes global warming. Policies and technology cooperation behaviour are a bold step to combat such a phenomenon.With a concise,constructive and clear plan of renewable sources,systems,channels,programs and project are progress to an e-waste eco-friendly ecosystem livelihood to all in the world for a fair cost of environmental accessibility and gain to ensure the success for all. |
