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Human communities benefit from technology. Inventions and human-engineered materials have improved human survival and quality of life. Technology allows us to live comfortably in harsh habitats. It also helps us produce large quantities of food and transport food, goods. Throughout each day and night, members of human communities consume oxygen, water, and food and produce waste. We use energy for transportation, heating and cooling, and to power businesses and industries. We interact with biotic and abiotic elements for survival, just as other living things do. When we are developing new technologies to improve our lives, we do not always stop to consider what impact they will have on the other biotic elements in our ecosystem or the abiotic elements in the environment in general.