Assignment

Choose a particular aspect of science and technology and begin writing about it. You may submit your work to the blog shop as a micro story, video, or podcast.

Explanation

[Choose a specific science or tech topic that interests you (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change Solutions, Space Exploration).

Research the topic and create your own original content about it. Could be text or video or podcast]

I've taken Environmental Science and Technology as my Topic. It is an aspect of Climate Change.

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Look Well Before You Fix

When your phone screen cracks or your battery starts to swell, your first mind is to find the nearest engineer to patch it sharp-sharp. We carry this same quick-fix energy to the environment. We see a dry farm or a flooded street and we want to throw technology at it immediately. But the Earth is not a cheap smartphone. You can’t just restart a forest or download a new river.

Think of the environment like a massive, interconnected motherboard. The soil, the water, the air, and the sun are all wired together. In tech, if you bridge the wrong wire, the whole board blows.

The environment works exactly the same way:

•​The Soil is like your storage.

•​The Water is like the power supply.

•​The Air is the cooling system.

If you try to fix the storage without checking the power supply, you are going to crash the system. Everything is holding hands. You cannot touch one without shaking the others.

Why Your Patches are Failing

In tech, a "patch" is a quick update to fix a bug. But in nature, there are no quick patches.

If a neighborhood is flooding and you just build a concrete wall, you haven't solved the bug. You’ve just pushed the error message to the next street. Now their houses are drowning because you didn't study the flow of the water. Rushing to fix things without understanding the source code of the land is why our solutions don't last. A plaster on a dirty wound only hides the infection; it doesn't cure it.

The rule is simple: You cannot repair what you don’t understand.

Before you bring in the tractors or the chemicals, you need to scan  the system. You have to be an observer first. How does the water move when the rain is heavy? Why is the soil changing color?

In the tech world, we say Think Before You Tool. In the real world, we say Look Well Before You Touch. If you don't take the time to understand the system, your fix will just be another problem for tomorrow. Stop rushing. The Earth doesn't do fast charging. It takes its time, and we must learn to do the same.

My assignment would be looking at Environmental Science and Technology related issues and solution over the next few weeks.