The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviation pioneers credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Their invention was intended to launch the world into the aviation field, hoping to ease and quicken transportation throughout the world.
In today’s world, aircrafts are used on a massive scale, helping people become more socially interactive, explore the world and facilitate travel. It has been beneficial with imports, exports, tourism, and business. However such an invention and its utilisation due to modern means have cost us a lot as well, both financially and sustainably. Amongst the several disadvantages, the most dominant is its contribution to global warming, pollution (noise & air), and leaving a huge carbon footprint. Airplanes run on kerosene fuel, which when combusted, releases a large amount of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere. The aviation industry is one of the fastest-growing sources of carbon gases in the atmosphere. It continues to affect the climate with no recourse because of its growth and there being no alternativeto kerosene as fuel.
Being an environmental activist and seeing the earth slowly but gradually collapse makes me definitely wonder, when it was first invented, would we have been able to imagine that it would lead to impacting nature in such a horrific way? Would we be right in thinking that such an invention was pre-decided to adversely affect our world, the way it has ? Obviously not. Whenever any invention is made, it is done with the sole purpose of enhancing the quality of human life and making it better. The Wright brothers, as knowers, could not have envisaged the damage that their invention could have caused, hence ethical considerations could not be applied. From the inventors’ point of view, they were just doing what they thought would be the best for the world and the future, little did they know what turn things could take years later and could not be guilty of it.
The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviation pioneers credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.
Their invention was intended to launch the world into the aviation field, hoping to ease and quicken transportation throughout the world