For this assignment, you will write a 500-word expository essay on the topic of

For this assignment, you will write a 500-word expository essay on the topic of technology as a possible solution to environmental damage. Your essay should have a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose. In addition, your writing should be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. Following are the content requirements of the essay:
Although you may use additional academic articles obtained from the Purdue Global Library, here are some notable sources:
MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/
Nature: https://www.nature.com/
Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/
United Nations Environment Programme: https://www.unenvironment.org/
EPA: https://www.epa.gov/
National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Discover: https://www.discovermagazine.com/
USAID: https://www.usaid.gov/
Select one technology that may help correct an environmental concern.
What is the environmental concern?
Did humans cause this environmental concern?
What do proponents of the technology claim?
What do its critics say?
Is the technology currently in use?
If not, what is the potential future use?
How costly is this technology?
What, if any, are the drawbacks of this technology?
Based on your research, do you believe this technology could be an effective technological fix?
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
Crutzen, P. (2006). Albedo enhancement by stratospheric sulfur injections: A contribution to resolve a policy dilemma? Climatic Change, 77, 211–219.
Holden, E. (2019, March 11). Radical plan to artificially cool Earth’s climate could be safe, study finds. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/11/solar-geoengineering-climate-change-new-study
Levitt, S. D., & Dubner, S. J. (2009). Superfreakonomics: Global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance. William Morrow.
Pearce, F. (2019). Geoengineer the planet? More scientists now say it must be an option. Yale Environment 360. https://e360.yale.edu/features/geoengineer-the-planet-more-scientists-now-say-it-must-be-an-option
Schurer, A. P., Hegerl, G. C., Luterbacher, J., Brönnimann, S., Cowan, T., Tett, S. F. B., Zanchettin, D., & Timmreck, C. (2019). Disentangling the causes of the 1816 European year without a summer. Environmental Research Letters, 14.
Temple, J. (2019, August 9). What is geoengineering-and why should you care? MIT Technology Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/09/615/what-is-geoengineering-and-why-should-you-care-climate-change-harvard/
Wood, S., Gardiner, S., & Hartzell-Nichols, L. (2013). Climatic change special issue: Geoengineering research and its limitations. Climatic Change, 121, 427–430. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-1000-4