Alexander Perez									2/6/05

	As we build upon the scientific achievements of the past, we look to the future as a means to secure the fruits of our history of discovery.  While science and technology has been used to improve and even ensure the lives of billions, we only need to read a newspaper or watch the evening news for examples where the same knowledge is used to harm or destroy the lives of countless others.  Using science and technology, we can help make sure such things can never happen and fix the damage inflicted upon the civil and natural world.
	As western society moved from the Victorian to the Industrial ages, society-changing innovations were brought to the modernizing world, but with it came those who would use science for harm and ignorance of the ramifications and misuses of science upon the world and society.  Pollution from factories lacking care for the surrounding environment and devastating weapons to protect scarred both the land and people who misused it, as well as the truly innocent.
	Using science, humans will be able to reverse the damaging misuses of technology and science used inappropriately, and help create a world our descendants will be able to live in without fear of disaster by their surrounding environment or from those meaning to harm them.  By using medicine and technology to combat diseases created by pollution, by focusing less on harming others and redirecting that energy to make the lives of other better, can we ensure our futures and that of our descendants.  
	If one can misuse science for harm, one should also be able to use it for the benefit of society and our environment as a whole.  Only through science and technology can we make sure our futures are not destroyed by our own hands.