Unsustainable Course With Technology Team 1

Life  Graduate college and get a job  Family/Friends Social Life: 3 rd of 6 kids. Make new friends  Occupation: become a nuclear engineer  Recreation: Enjoy playing soccer  Political Life: none

Electronic Waste (E Waste)  E waste are electronics near the end of their “use Life”  80 to 85 percent of electronic products were discarded in landfills or incinerators  Only 12.5 percent of e-waste is currently recycled  Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver every year.  Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

Life  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.  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.  Work: I hope to get a job designing orthotics and prosthetics and to think of new, innovative ways to improve them.  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  People are only concerned with what happens in the present  We are not looking at the bigger picture  Demand continues to rise year after year, but the supply is constrained  Water is declining in availability, especially in places in India and African nations  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  They are being exploited without any bounds  Extraction process itself is damaging, but the transportation of these resources is just as harmful  Long distance transportation  Processing

life  1. To be a good person and make as many other people’s lives better as possible  2. To have a long lasting relationship with the people who are willing to stick around  3. To have a shack on the beach or a cabin in the woods  4. Become an industrial engineer  5. Skiing, pottery, drawing  6. Don’t care much for politics

Automobiles  1.Air Pollution  - December 1970 US reported 89.9 billion miles traveled by vehicle in 2011 US reported trillion miles traveled by car  -more than half of the air pollution is caused by cars  -greenhouse gases destroying the ozone layer  -acid rain from particles in air that car emissions give off  2.Fluid pollution  -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

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Life Ebrahim Almazrouei  Personl: I’d like to be healthy, successful and do whatever comes to my mind and achieve my dreams  Social : I’m very close to my friends and family  Work / occupation :  ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company)Advanced Technology Investment Company  Recreation: Enjoying my life, soccer, camping, etc  Political: to be active

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