LORENE JOY CAMBONGGA

DEBBIE ROSE ENDINO

BS CRIM 1 CHARLIE

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Assignment 8

Instructions:
Read about Martin Heidegger’s, The Question Concerning Technology, and then look at the
photos below (a) bring forth or (b) challenge forth? Encircle the letter of your answer below each
photo and be ready to explain your choice to the class. Still group report by pair and state the
danger of this technology, the advantages and the disadvantages.
AGRICULTURE
The issue highlighted in the image is the development of our agriculture. This picture shows
bring forth because this is where we get our primary source of our food and water supply in
agriculture. Agriculture is also one of the key sources of a country's economy.
 Danger of agriculture
The risk to farm workers from agriculture is exposed to a wide range of environmental hazards
that are potentially hazardous to their health and well-being. Increased rates of respiratory
diseases, noise-induced hearing loss, skin disorders, some cancers, chemical toxicity, and heat-
related diseases are experienced by farmers and farm employees.
 Advantage
Farming provides opportunities to raise people in developing nations out of poverty. Farming,
starting with farmers and continuing with farm machinery manufacturers, food processing plants,
shipping, utilities and manufacturing and generates more employment.
 Disadvantage
Due to absence of practical knowledge, farmers cannot operate the machines properly that is a
disadvantage of modern farming. The cost of maintenance is very high. Environmental damage
can result from overuse of machines. It is successful, but it has side effects and disadvantages.

WIND POWER
The problem described in the picture is the use of wind energy. In our opinion about the image is
that it is bring forth. This indicates a development because the problem of wind power helps to
minimize the use of carbon emissions that are greenhouse gases which cause global warming.
 Danger of wind power
Wind energy may have negative effects on the environment, including wildlife, fish, and plant
habitat loss, fragmentation, or destruction. In addition, spinning turbine blades is hazard for
animals such as birds and bats that fly.
 Advantage
An unlimited, free, renewable resource (the wind itself), economic value, maintenance costs, and
wind harvesting facility placement are the key advantages of wind power
 Disadvantages
The wind is not constant in intensity and it ranges from zero to gale force. This implies that wind
turbines do not generate the same amount of power all the time. Sometimes they generate no
energy at all.
MINING
Mining is the problem depicted in the image. This image is challenge forth because mining
threatens our nature by causing erosion, deforestation, sinkholes, habitat loss and even producing
a large amount of waste rocks to be mined. This affects our wellbeing, as well as our nature, as it
is aggressive.
 Danger
Miners are exposed to dangerous airborne pollutants such as silica dust and other mineral dust on
a daily basis. This puts them at a higher risk over a long period of time for developing respiratory
diseases such as pneumoconiosis, aka the black lung, and silicosis.
 Advantage
Mining help to attain a high number of jobs for the local population are also provided by the
mining industry. Unemployment rates are very high, particularly in many poor countries on our
planet, and mining jobs are essential for the local population in order to make enough money to
survive.
Therefore, mining can also be crucial, particularly in structurally poor regions where people don't
have too many other job opportunities.
 Disadvantage
The following are the disadvantage of mining
 Soil pollution
 Groundwater pollution
 Deforestation
 Depletion of natural resources
 Mining implies the destruction of habitats
 Endangerment of species
 Loss of biodiversity
 Landslides
 Ecological imbalance
 Indigenous people may have to leave their home
 Serious health issues related to mining
 Contamination with heavy metals