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Digitizing Education System Can Save the Earth

Md. Mehedi Hassan

University of The People

ENGL 0101: English Composition I

Prof. Hannah Hunt

July 8, 2021

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Digitizing Education System Can Save the Earth

Thesis

While deforestation could be reduced significantly by digitizing the educational system

because online education is similar to a paperless classroom, and it has the potential to

revolutionize the fight against deforestation. The less paper we use, the more trees will be

saved, and online education can reduce the negative impacts on other natural resources,

too.

Essay

The tremendous expansion of paper usage has put the world's forests in jeopardy since

more trees are getting cut down every day, and it has become the greatest threat to earth

and all living beings by causing global warming. Even though there are other reasons

responsible for deforestation, human activities are responsible for it. Since the dawn of

civilization, the relation between humans and trees is undetachable. There is no other

alternative way to replace Oxygen- the imperative element for the living world, which we

get from the trees. But, our heartless activities are decreasing the number of these friends

from nature day by day. After the invention of paper and using it in our day-to-day life,

we have damaged the ecological balance that assured our safe and sound survival. The

average consumption rate of 400,000 sheets of paper per school year has helped the

education sector climb up the way to the top of the ladder. In this current situation, online

education could be the solution to revolutionize the fight against deforestation by

decreasing paper consumption and save the earth.

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By getting an education online, people will be less likely to be in the paper documents

like (textbooks, homework submissions, and grade reports) which will be replaced by

electronic documents. Online education is similar to a paperless classroom that can help

create less waste, dodging printing costs, and it also has the potential to revolutionize the

fight against deforestation.

A standard pine tree can produce up to 10,000 sheets of paper, and the average

consumption rate of paper sheets per year by a school is Four hundred thousand, which

makes it around forty standard pine trees that are getting cut down every year. So, when

things (the academic documental activities) will get done online, the need for physical

textbooks and other paper-related documents will decrease. Ultimately, it will help to

reduce the amount of paper consumption in the educational sector. Moreover, we would

be able to save more trees if you use less paper.

Online learning lowers the negative impact of manufacturing and transports on the

environment. The need for traditional school supplies (textbooks, desks, electricity, and

buildings) is considerably reducing, and the results are waste reduction and natural

resources conservation. Online learning also saves both the learning institution and the

student money and time. The average American uses up to 600 gallons of gas a year.

Much of this waste comes from speeding, waiting in traffic, and parking the car while

texting. There are bunches of studies that indicated that Carbon Dioxide emissions

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reduced by up to ten tons each semester for every 100 students who did not go to school.

Compared to a traditional school, online learning consumes up to 90 percent less energy.

So, serving education online can reduce the negative impacts on other natural resources,

and it also has the potential to be a solution to save the earth.

It is no wonder that we are trying to figure out new ways to make our day-to-day life

more comfortable. But if the earth becomes a place where it will not be a livable place

anymore, what will we do with all these comforts. There are many more ways to reduce

deforestation, and digitizing the education system could be one. By creating a paperless

classroom, we can revolutionize the fight against deforestation, as the paper is one of the

basic materials for education. There is no doubt that education has no other alternatives,

and one must educate himself to build a beautiful nation and a beautiful future. But

instead of using paper materials, we can transform the materials into electronic

documents to use less paper and save more trees. By digitizing education, we can save

trees. Moreover, we can save the earth.

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