Artificial intelligence is a growing system, everyone knows it, and practically everyone uses it. Unknowingly, the people who use AI are a part of a large world wide problem.

Climate change is the rising temperatures of ocean waters, the melting of glaciers, and shifts in ecosystem characteristics. It is a growing issue, one that people chose to neglect and ignore due to money or lack of motivation for change.

Humans lack the brain power to comprehend that we only have one planet, one planet that we all live on and one planet that we treat as disposable.

Asking ChatGPT to write one email is equivalent to pouring one bottle of water or powering 14 light bulbs for one hour. Do we really need AI?

In my honest opinion, no. Students these days practically have everything handed to them on a silver platter, with one prompt, you get one generated text that gives you the answers for everything.
We have completely lost the plot in school where you are supposed to learn and grow. We are supposed to want to learn. By abusing the school system, we are choosing to be dumb. When we see AI videos, we have to stare at them and analyze them just to figure out if they are real or not.

It has gotten to a point where we do not know what is real or fake, we do not know what to believe. Our own president is posting fake AI videos of himself, talking about medical advancements that have not been made, promising it to all of the good American people; most likely excluding the less than or the minorities.

What are its effects on the environment? Recently, I watched a video centered on a woman named Beverly Morris in Georgia living next to a large Meta data center. A private well was Morris’s only source of water.

“I can’t live in my home with half of it functioning and no water. I can’t drink the water.” Morris said.

Just pouring from the tap, her water was murky, and there were brown sediments on the bottom.

One study estimates that AI data centers could use up to 1.7 trillion gallons of water worldwide by 2027. According to data from the World Resources Institute, 33 countries are expected to face extremely high water stress by 2040.

So where does this leave us? AI is draining not just our resources, but our animals’ resources too. We need them to survive, we all need to work together to fight this but people love it too much.
Polar bears are dying quickly, the coral reef is growing closer and closer to the point of no return, of no fixing. Animals are becoming endangered at faster rates, and humans are practically doing nothing to fix it.

So how do we fix it? How do we stop the inevitable? The biggest thing we can do is stop the use of AI. The human brain is so intelligent and something that we take for granted. Start using public transportation, use items that are reliable and reusable. Stop using plastics, start buying from small businesses, rather than corporations.

And please, help our planet because it’s the only one we have.