Sustainability Education, Plastic Collection Robots, and Big Tech becoming Big Sustainability
Here are three ideas that may be of service to anyone working in this sector.
Sustainable Engineering Education
In third world countries, there are no sewage systems. People in these countries throw their poop in plastic bags directly to the ocean. Therefore, these people need to be educated on the lasting effects of their actions. On top of that, better sewage systems need to be funded.
As the world gets collectively more educated, better systems that help nature will be built. This will happen because more minds will collaborate on shared problems. The right solutions and configurations specific to land geographies will be found faster through sharing ideas and collaboration.
Course design for third world residents is essential to living on a better Earth because it would cause a cultural shift: individuals and societies could start caring about their influence on the environment. This kind of course design would have longterm effects. These longterm effects include having forests that bear more fruit and oceans that produce more clean fish. The more environmental knowledge there is flowing through the world, the more efficiently people will interact with the planet.
Robots collecting plastic in the dynamic, wavy, immense, and unpredictable ocean.
Micro plastics are tiny, so robots with microsensors need to be created. There are already marine robots designed to collect large accumulations of plastic. AI robot vision is a tough solution here, because the ocean can get very dark and plastic can get very small. We need some sort of plastic compass, an intricate molecular sensor. There is also the idea of engineering microscopic life forms that eat plastic. This would make plastic biodegradable, but I’m not sure how dependable engineers can make these life forms. However, we need solutions as soon as possible.
Big Tech becoming Big Sustainability
Technology is great, but there are a set of problems that could end life as we know it if we don’t act fast. A lot is slipping through the cracks. Therefore, big tech needs to contribute to big sustainability with sensors, data, and user interfaces to shape a more collaborative and informed world. These companies have the power necessary to move people in the right direction with their user experiences/applications and consumer technologies.
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