Unit 10: No technology? No Way!

   Technology and the environment: Positive and negative aspects

            For many years the technology has satisfied many needs us and have helped us move in the everyday world, but it has brought with it consequences. To produce technology we depend on natural resources and affect the environment in which we live. But if we were to analyze the benefits and not benefits of the technology, which we end up supporting?.

            On the benefits of advances in technology have allowed us to implement actions or use obejectos that we never get to use, and has been developed in countless areas of our lives. For example communications with video calls to other countries, intenet and advanced computers and cell phones, or medicine with new equipment for treatment and detection. But if you look in the environmental area is not searched further development of technology, what we find today is more often recycling, renewable energy or less harsh chemicals to the environment but it is not common practice to do or driven by companies.

            If we mention cons never finished but within them are altering the environment, we find the raw material extraction and pollution in air, water and earth, death and extinction of many species and over-exploitation of exhaustible resources. But man also belongs to this form of "balance" and we ourselves have been unconsciously affects, for example we become consumerist, sedentary people who no longer appreciate the environment around them and just focus on a fast life and practice and in many cases people sickened by pollution and radiation technology.

            If we conclude the above we find as the technology itself is not as good as usual is present, but we keep mowed walking on a life of consumerism and pride, without assessing what is really necessary and important in our lives as it is medium environment, no he we could not live and also is a being who feels and lives every abuse  we do and as human beings we need awareness in this area. In my opinion I would rather live like the old days and those who lived with a better balance with the environment not as now, every day we each see more implusamos our deathbed and the environment.

Vocabulary

Sending me over the edge: frustating greatly.
Retaliatory: to return like for like, especially evil for evil.
Vigilante: a person who helps others.
Jolted: to move or dislodge with a sudden, hard blow, strike heavily or jarringly.
Shattered: increased.
Towed: to draw or pull behind by a chain or line.
Wail: whisper.
Siren: warning signal.
Banned: to prohibit, especially by official decree.
Prompted: to assist with a reminder, remind.
Vibrations: echoes.
Fustrated: disappointed.
Defective: imperfect.
Offense: a violation or breaking of social or moral rule.
Annoying: irritantigly bothersome.
Faint: lacking conviction, boldness, or courage, timid.
Loud: Characterize by high volume and intensity.
Startling: to cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start, to alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly.
Shrill: high pitched and piercing in tone or sound.
Piercing: to sound sharply through.

Grammar: Future Perfect and Future Progressive

Both are commonly used to speak about events in the future.

Future Perfect
Is used to talk baout a future action that will already have been completed by a certain time in the future.

To form the future perfect, active voice:
Use will + have + past participle.
To form the future prefect, passive voice:
Use will + have been + past participle.

Examples:
By tomorrow evening, I will have sent about 20 email messages.
By the end of the week, about 50 email messages will have been sent.

Future Progressive
Used to describe actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future.

To form the future progressive:
Use will + be + present participle.

Examples:
In the future, we'll be using a lot of new technology.