Engineers must commit to a global responsibility
March 21, 2022
In Water Magazine, Vaishnavi Balachandran talks about the responsibility of engineers to achieve environmental and social justice
It¡¯s an overwhelming statement: global human-made mass exceeds the overall mass of all living biomass on Earth: our buildings and infrastructure outweigh all the world¡¯s trees and shrubs, and our plastic outweighs the dry weight of all animals.?The?Anthropocene?has been driven mostly by our production of concrete, metal, plastic, bricks, and asphalt.
We have engineered a world with more conveniences than ever before and changed the planet more rapidly in the last 50-100 years than at any previous point in history. But is this sustainable and can we let it continue? As engineers, what¡¯s our role in the future production and accumulation of human-made mass?
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