With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, Technology developed rapidly, science became advanced and the manufacturing age came into view. With all of these came one more effect: industrial pollution.
Nowadays technology has become very important: everyone possesses a mobile phone, a computer, an iPod or an iPad. But these things are a Wants or a Need?
In my opinion technology is both Wants and a Need. A Wants because, in general, most of  people want to follow  fashion, and then as soon as a new model of phone is launched, they all want to have one of it. But in this way, they’re abusing of this object, because initially the reason of the telephones was the communication. Technology is also a Need, because it lets us to comunicate with far away people, and it can save us in extreme cases. In a sense, mobile phone gives  us certainty.
Personally I don’t change a phone quickly like some people: I get a new cell phone every two years, because, after a little bit of time they begin to work badly and to go slower, and it makes me nervous.
Usually, when we buy a new mobil e phone, we don’t think to the problems that this can lead to the environment. I discovered that using the mobile phone under 2 minutes per day, 47 kg of CO2 are emitted in a year and using it for 1 hour per day 1250 kg of CO2 are emitted in a year! The global usage per year emits 125 million tonnes CO2 which is just over one-quarter of a per cent of global emissions!
Chatting for a minute emits 57g of CO2. Three minutes has a similar impact to sending a small letter (written on recycled paper) by second-class post!
Chatting for an hour each day, the total adds up to more than 1 tonne CO2 per year – the equivalent of flying from London to New York, one way, in economy class. To produce a mobile phone, 16 kg of CO2 are emitted, the same quantity emitted to produce nearly 1kg of beef (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ … bile-phone)
Personally, I’m not addicted to my phone. I think that this addiction can be break up looking at the above-mentioned data: more you use your mobile phone, and more you pollute! If we use a lot the mobile phone, we damage ourself because everyone breathes this polluted air. All depend if you want to help the environment or not. I'm not saying to not use the phone: I'm saying to use it moderately, and to not abuse of it.