Summary: Article Of The Week Response

Article of the Week Response- Revision Everybody knows about how, in 1945, at the end of World War II, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan to force them to surrender. In current times, on the other side of the world, more and more Syrian refugees flood into places such as Greece, the United Nations, Jordan, Lebanon, and other countries. A question is now being addressed: How can we use technology to protect people? An article by Project Syndicate titled “Opinion: Our technological advances haven’t helped solve refugee dilemma” reflects on how, “historically, we have been better at developing technologies to kill people than we have been at protecting them.” This is true, as we handled World War II quite gruesomely, as 140,000 people died when we bombed Hiroshima and 80,000 died at Nagasaki, according to Denverpost.com. Since nearby countries are being overwhelmed by the massive number of Syrian refugees, officials are using technology to try and take control. They can now scan the irises …show more content…
They could easily build much more buildings and safe houses, which would actually solve the problem, rather than standing around with their hands in their pockets, claiming they can’t do anything. Instead of pushing the refugees back to their deaths, how can we create technology to help them and to shelter them? In futuristic movies, we see hovercrafts and hover-type subways that can travel near the speed of sound. We can build something like that, or something close to it, and be able to shuttle these refugees to safer places. Technicians and constructors can easily section off an area and build extra shelters for the refugees. Instead of sitting on their butts and twiddling their thumbs while more Syrians are being killed and bodies are washing ashore, how about politicians and leaders actually do something about it and solve the