Science – A Menace to Humanity or Disadvantages of Science
This is an age of science. Science has changed the face of the world. It gave electricity, electronics, telephone, Aeroplane and several other things for the pleasure and comfort of man. It has minimized the sufferings and increased the happiness of man.
Science has become a curse to humanity today. The evils that it has showered on man wash away its advantages. Science is responsible for wars and deadly modem weapons like long-range remote-controlled and radar-guided missiles, poisonous gases, biological weapons, warships, sophisticated aircraft, atom bomb, hydrogen bomb and neutron bomb that can destroy the whole world in no time. Such weapons are amassed by the developed nations in large numbers. Scientists are busy making further advances in the field of armaments. The Star War Project developed by the U.S.A will carry the struggle in the space and it will lead to large-scale pollution. All these result in causing havoc and large-scale destruction. Large-scale deaths ruin thousands of families and destroy homes and factories. All these cause widespread difficulties, unemployment and poverty.
Nuclear energy created by science has become a menace today. The nuclear power plants pose a very serious danger. The Chernobyl blast in the former Soviet Union spread radiation all around. The radiation after the blast affected plant life and animal life in many parts of Europe. Thousands of people died and thousands are suffering from cancer and other evil diseases. Millions of people are still ill in Hiroshima and Nagaski due to the explosion of atom bombs. When millions of people die of starvation, more than fifty percent of the budget is being spent on war equipments. Out of mutual fear and suspicion, India and Pakistan do this. The money which could have been used for feeding the starving people is being spent to make the world a fire-cracker shop.