//edit:: this was a joke, since I was both angry at having homework (when am i not?) and trying to make homework look bad, but seems like it’s being googled a lot and landing here… just take it with a grain of salt yeah?
Homework by hand is unsustainable because paper is a direct result of deforestation, which links to habitat loss for specialist species.
Pens, use plastics that will eventually contribute to landfills, which take up space, reducing the available land for living species around it, also causing disruption of land animal migration patterns.
Pencils, made from wood are also a direct result of deforestation, linked to habitat loss. Lead is mined from coal mining areas which release sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other dangerous airborne chemicals that can harm animal respiratory systems.
Homework by computer is harmful to the environment because the energy used by the computer most likely comes from nonrenewable sources (ex. coal), which burning of causes release of Sulfur Dioxides, contributing to air pollution and photochemical smog, which can directly harm animal respiratory systems, and raise heat of earth by absorbing sunlight, disturbing specialist species that depend on specific temperatures. Higher heat temperatures also lead to more water vapor retained in air, disturbing water amount and flow patterns that animals rely on to survive.
Nuclear power used to power computers also is harmful because of the long-lasting waste that results from nuclear fission –the waste must be stored deep under the earth, which over time may leak, or else it will directly harm animals by causing genetic mutations, and harmful skin cancers. This also renders much land around the burial site, and the nuclear power plant site useless and unhabitable because of the radiation, and destroys habitat for animals.
Computers powered by Wind power and other renewable sources (wave, dams, solar…) may disturb bird, and fish migratory patterns by taking up space and changing air and water flow. Solar can also take up space, which disrupts animal habitats, and also are made of plastics and metals that can eventually end up at a landfill, causing contaminated leechate, which must be sent through a tedious cleaning process, because it can poison bodies of water and soil, killing animals. The cleaning process uses difficult, expensive processes that use a lot of energy, again, linking to my idea of computers using any sort of power to an environmental hazard.
oh, the tedious process of explaining yourself in ap enviro classes sucks.