Science: a Menace to Civilisation?

Science is the knowledge about the structure and behaviour of the natural and physical world, based on facts that you can prove. Thus, science is the rule of the nature, of this world we are living in and we human got so many profits from the nature during 12,000,000 years under this rule. Nobody will consider it as a menace to civilisation in this way. However, something has changed in the modern world. People initiate using basic science in technologies, then, technologic science, medicinal science and other modern science appeared and that’s what people know nowadays. They are quite different from the original science; they are more likely to be a study of how to defeat the nature instead of how to obey it. Therefore, many side-effects are brought out. That is way some people say that science becomes a menace to civilisation.

Science is the origin of pollution. The pollution problem is the most serious issue we meet nowadays. Although people want to stop it and limit discharge of polluted water, pesticide and so on, the pollution is still there. The reason is we live in this modern world and something like electricity, plastic bags and batteries are essential for us in daily life. All these pollution origins are invented by using science. We human once had blue sky, clear water, and green land to share with all the creatures on the earth thousands of years ago without the thing so-called “science” and “technology”. We lost all these magnificent things now. People love to enjoy the easy life with convenient machine or computer; however, they are losing the environment and bring human to death. Thus, science may help, but also a “clever” killer who will kill human softly.

Science do harm to the animals. In chemical or medicinal area, testing is a necessary part of researching. No body would want to participate in such a high-risk experiment. The scientist has to carry out most of their experiment on animals, like chemical test or medicine test. Like medicine test, people will test the staff on dogs or apes to see whether the medicine is safe or not and what is the side-effect before they do that to human. It was normal before every new type of medicine is produced. Some of the animals which are tested would be OK, some of them would live in misery, and some of them would even die. The worst result is drawing the spices into danger. In Greenland, a group of people earn money from catching seals for science organization; more than 100 seals die because of that. Human and other animals are all creatures on the earth but different spices. They should be treated equally. Nobody want to live on a planet only with human, the true is our civilisation can not exist without animals. Science cause the death of animals, thus, it is a menace to civilisation.
Science cause more death in war. In ancient times, people use cold weapon in the war and killing people is not that easy with cold weapon comparing with the weapon in modern war. “There were 2000 soldiers involved in the war, only ten plus people die; the war ended when all the soldiers were exhausted and the peace come.” It is one of the descriptions of ancient war. It seems to be a joke; however, it is true in ancient Europe. Science brings guns, cannons, bombs, chemical weapons, missiles and nuclear weapons into the war. Killing people become so easy with them. Sometimes even a whole city can not survive from the war with these dangerous weapons. We should be aware that science causes all of that and science can destroy our civilisation easily.

We can not say that science is totally an evil thing; it brings so much convenience to human. In our mind, the development of science is the development of civilisation. But we should always remember one thing, science is also a menace to our civilisation.