Write an essay in which you explain the advantages and disadvantages of both older and newer methods of transportation. Use evidence from both passages in your essay.

Answer and Explanation:

Transportation methods are an essential element for the construction of civilizations, as it allowed the movement of peoples, products and even allowed communication. Given this importance, it is not surprising how this element has evolved over the years.

Although we have very modern and fast means of transport, humanity has already been subjected to less modern means of transport with less technology. A major advantage of these means of transport is the environmental sustainability that they promoted. An example of this is the use of horses that older people used to get around. As horses did not need to burn fuel to move, they did not pollute the environment, but represented slow transport and could not take long trips without breaks and did not allow international travel.

With the advance of technology, industrialization and human needs, the means of transport have evolved, until reaching the means of transport that we currently have. The great advantage of these transport is the agility with which the trips are made and the lack of limited territory reached. We can go anywhere in the world with several different transportation options. However, this is done with the burning of fuels, which promotes a great deterioration of our environment, which is already very degraded.

Therefore, we can say that there is a challenge for the means of transport of the future. They must maintain or increase efficiency and agility, but decrease the need for fuel and environmental degradation. Thus we will have means of transport that are fast and committed to sustainability.