Application Assignment #1
Section 1 - Environmental and health impacts presented in your reading The article that I read was titled "‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025" . The environmental impacts that are present in my reading pertain to technologies use and its potential ability to cause bad global emissions. As it stood in 2015 global computing power from all the devices we use such as high definition streaming, surveillance cameras, and basically all other internet/power run devices are lead to the consumption of 3-5% of the worlds electricity. The Human Health impacts that are present in this article stray a little bit far away from immediate harm. This is because the use of technology is projected to worsen the climate. Technology is only fairly new on the radar so its effects haven't been fully measured. With that being said technology is said to create climate change to some extent. This could lead to the risk of illness due to raising