Earth Friendly

I don’t think there is any worse feeling to experience during college finals week when your computer suddenly crashes without warning. Even when you have made efforts to save a copy of every file on a flash drive or CD, you can’t help but wonder if you might have forgotten to save something twice. Unfortunately, today was my day to experience this panic. My life was on that computer and I will most likely not get it back. Thankfully a copy of my life (while it may not be complete) is on a flash drive, which I intend to keep tucked close to my side.

Now that my anger and frustration has somewhat dissipated, I fully understand my complete and utter dependence upon technology. Interestingly enough, this dependence is what has caused most of our environmental problems. We use and abuse natural resources like they are in unlimited supply. But in reality, nothing is permanent, everything is limited in some way or another. It’s just like how I took my computer for granted. I’ve only had it for two years, so every time I turn it on, I expect it to work properly and quickly. When it didn’t, my world was turned upside down, and I had to try and solve the problem and think of alternative ways I could get to a computer today to do my work.

My advice to you is to try to be more self-sufficient. So if you have the ability and money to do so, grown your own food, install solar panels on your house, drink water from a well, etc.

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