Which of the following statements critiques technology’s impact on the physical environment?
Human desire for fossil fuels such as oil and coal has led to reliance on technologies like fracking, despite the damage fracking does.
Human desire for fossil fuels such as oil and coal has led to reliance on technologies like fracking, despite the damage fracking does.
Dams help humans reroute water for irrigation and to create power, allowing them to accomplish important goals for themselves.
Dams help humans reroute water for irrigation and to create power, allowing them to accomplish important goals for themselves.
Taking steps to avoid deforestation is one strategy that will enable humans to reduce technology’s impact on the physical environment.
Taking steps to avoid deforestation is one strategy that will enable humans to reduce technology’s impact on the physical environment.
Greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing have been happening for centuries in factories around the world, causing climate change.
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Technology is decreasing crop yields.
Technology is decreasing crop yields.
Technology is being used to conserve and restore ecosystems.
Technology is being used to conserve and restore ecosystems.
Technology is decreasing life expectancy.
Technology is decreasing life expectancy.
Technology is leading to less innovation.
Over time, humans have decreased the inputs of energy and chemicals in agriculture.
Over time, humans have decreased the inputs of energy and chemicals in agriculture.
Humans have been using the same agricultural techniques since the beginning of sedentary agriculture.
Humans have been using the same agricultural techniques since the beginning of sedentary agriculture.
Over time, agricultural techniques shifted from very expensive to very cheap.
Over time, agricultural techniques shifted from very expensive to very cheap.
Over time, agricultural techniques shifted from requiring large inputs of labor to requiring large inputs of energy and technology.
intensive farming
intensive farming
genetically modified crops
genetically modified crops
nomadic pastoralism
nomadic pastoralism
industrial agriculture
industrial agriculture
Since the mid-eighteenth century, people have gradually transitioned from riding horses to driving automobiles, flying airplanes, and launching rockets to space.
Since the mid-eighteenth century, people have gradually transitioned from riding horses to driving automobiles, flying airplanes, and launching rockets to space.
People learned how to use trees to make paper more than 2,000 years ago.
People learned how to use trees to make paper more than 2,000 years ago.
People used to produce electricity by burning coal, but today electricity can be produced using sunlight, running water, wind, and Earth’s internal heat.
People used to produce electricity by burning coal, but today electricity can be produced using sunlight, running water, wind, and Earth’s internal heat.
People have been using iron since the beginning of the Iron Age hundreds of years ago.
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