DISADVANTAGES OF CHEMISTRY

CHEMISTRY

The role of chemistry in our lives cannot be ignore on any cost as it involves everywhere in our surroundings. It helps us understand the working of different things and provides a new ways of making our life better. It is involved in the making of most of the things we use every day. However with these all advantages, there are several disadvantages of chemistry. No doubt, the aim of scientists is always to improve the quality of human life and other living bodies. But sometimes these new inventions can be harmful for the living bodies and their environment such as any introduction or removal of chemical substance in our environment can change the composition of it and effect the social, living organisms, or earth-wide. Many chemical substances such as DDT, CFCs etc. are very harmful for our environment but are widely use by today’s generation to make their life comfortable. 
 

Other disadvantages of chemistry is the hormone replacement therapy, and the Bhopal Disaster. The chemical analysis processes easiest, fastest approach is the EDAX capability.  There are several advance technologies which are used for the treatment of serious diseases such as X-ray analysis, chemotherapy can be very dangerous if not done properly and under a controlled condition.

While scientists’ aim to improve the quality of life for humans, plants, animals, and to save the environment, sometimes these are interpreted as quick fixes to real issues in society and our world. Any introduction or removal of a chemical in an environment can change the way a system works. (be it social, human, animal, or earth-wide) Repeated experiments on manufacture, testing, use, and long term effects of chemicals are essential to our survival. 

 

Look what happened with DDT, CFCs, hormone replacement therapy, and the Bhopal Disaster. While we learned a lot, there was a tremendous cost to the environment and/or humanity. We need to understand what we are really doing with our technology before we implement it. There is no such thing as a magic pill to save us all, unfortunately. The science of chemistry is good, but what we do with it can harm or help us. 

 

Another possible disadvantage of chemistry in our daily life would be an abuse of that knowledge. For example, the manufacturing of illegal drugs or explosive weaponry such as C4 and production of chemical weapons. 

 

Chemistry has played a lead role in agriculture providing fertilizer, pesticide etc but not without the disadvantage of pollution problem created out of indiscriminate use of chemicals in many areas of human activities like manufacturing, industry etc.

Surface water is now more polluted than the surface water from 1940s, for example, due to the increasing industrial chemistry pollutions. Wastewater if it is treated is not well treated because the conventional wastewater technology (i.e., biological treatment) is not until now well optimised especially in the undeveloped countries in terms of dissolved organics and pathogenic microorganisms removal.

 

CONCLUSION

In everything you see in this world, there will always be advantages and disadvantages Chemistry is not left out as it is vital to modern living, but since it comes with potential disadvantages, it is always recommended that people should be careful what we do with it because it can harm or help us.