The Importance Of Natural Resources

ou can only have so much good before it is all gone. Resource depletion is the biggest environmental issues known to man. As humans we’re using what we have to live, but we use more than we give out. Through science, we’re finally starting to understand that people are using too much of the resources and altering the face of the earth. If we’re not careful, these problems can’t be fixed.

The United Nations environment panel recently warned that the consumption of resources will triple in 2050 if our population increases at the expected rate. It would require the resource equivalent of three planets to sustain current lifestyles by then. Scientists are working hard to provide this information; however, most of the public is unaware of the imminent danger that is looming ahead. About one-third of the food produced globally is wasted, resulting in a loss of about $250 billion every year. The resulting carbon footprint is also as devastating when it comes to influencing climate change. Americans alone waste one trillion gallons of water each year. Food waste takes its share of that, as water is a main constituent of food. This crisis is unperceived by the public today, which is often driven by the desire to have surpluses of food, water, clothing, technology, and so on. In addition, companies often do little to mitigate this problem as they have their eyes primarily set on profit. For instance, why are millions of new phones are made each year, draining natural resources like tungsten, copper, and even gold, while people get to keep five older versions of the same phone at their home rather than recycling them? The same problem occurs in the clothing industry, leading to bulging closets. I’m concerned that our future generations will inherit a world that is no longer fruitful unless we start practicing strict conservatory methods. The media needs to work harder to help researchers convey their findings and possible solutions. Our future generations will thank us for each small step we take

The world has changed a lot these past years. A lot of deforestation has occurred as humans increased their expectations for survival. This brings up a bigger issue as to over using resources and using things that we don’t need and turn them into waste. The key reason to this is to help humans grow and develop more.

This rapid growth of industrial civilization is causing the Earth to die. Moreover the nation has begun to change mindsets on what should come first, they are deciding to put their comfortable lifestyles ahead of the protection of the planet. Stated by Alan Durning, “The tragic irony is that while the consumer society has been stunningly effective in harming the environment, it has failed to provide us with a sense of fulfillment” (Durning 68). Durning gives an undeniable fact; the population has continued to destroy the land so that they may seek entertainment and after they have had their enjoyment, they leave an area to begin the process of destruction. A multitude of the population would argue that the ‘small’ amounts of land that is being used has a microscopic effect on the world, however, when everyone is using ‘small’ amounts of land it adds up. Furthermore, “Barely 7 percent of the areas currently enjoy some form of protection” (Mittermeier). This gives way for a mass eradication of the remaining 93% of the terrain. While people may assume that they are not a threat to the Earth, they have not begun to consider the amount of energy they use or the amount of harmful chemicals that they release

The increased population of the planet is putting pressure on vulnerable natural resources such as food and water supplies. We have seen great benefits from science and technology, but these new technologies have altered consequences for the planet. We, as people, are the collective nervous system of the planet. Just like the frog who jumps in the warm water and never notices the water is getting hotter and hotter until it boils and he is a goner, the time will come when we will wish that we had connected the dots and paid attention to the signs a little

All around the world, people are consuming more resources, than what can be replenished in the same amount of time. The United States has one of the largest ecological footprints around the world; we are depleting resources very

The earth is sick. Its seven billion inhabitants must nurture it with water, rest, cool air so the fever will lower…the usual. Instead of this, the people living on the earth are over using its resources gradually destroying it, rather than helping out with the small flu which started the whole problem. On average humans in the United States use 4.1 earths worth of materials producing roughly 4.4 pounds of waste each day individually. Throughout history, researchers have found the beginnings of mass consumption and overuse of water specifically documented within the time periods of the Anasazi, Angkor Wat, and the Industrial Revolution leading up to today’s crisis.

By abusing nature, man cuts down too many trees and overuse our natural water supply. Although, there are efforts to compensate for the wrongdoings of a small number of people who tamper with man’s true relationship with nature. Organizations such as Plant a Billion Trees are leading the effort to restore forests by planting a billion trees by 2025, and efforts for desalination or converting seawater to freshwater which could be useful in drastic conditions - including the California Drought - have been taking action. Do not let a small number of people cause you to generalize mankind’s actions, especially towards

50 years of innovation and urbanization, we were blinded by the city lights and smokes that we do not seem to see the importance of taking good care of our environment, especially the nonrenewable sources. The consumers’ needs quickly became wants, and for the producers, wants simply mean profit, and profit is money. Money is everything to people nowadays. We would resort to everything that could provide us even the littlest amount of money, no matter what the repercussions would be, thus, the destroying of the resources. We are slowly killing the planet but we cannot see it because we are too busy trying to get things we believe we need. It is said that the earth’s weight is still the same as it was first created. Come to think of it, we do give and take with the nature, we take its resources, invent something useful that we consume, but we give it back as waste and

The Earth Day network footprint calculator was used to determine my environmental foot print. Once the information was put into the calculator, it calculated that if every person on earth lived as I do, it would take 3.9 planet earths to support my lifestyle. An estimated 17.4 global acres of land is needed to support my lifestyle. The average person living in the United States consumes a vast amount of resource compared with people from other countries. The U.S has about five percent of the world’s population yet is consumes about 25% of the of the world’s oil, 23% of the world’s coal and produces half of the world’s solid waste (Sheer 2017). As I try to make better choices to decrease my environmental footprint, I might do better than

Less than 5% of the global population live in the United States, and alone it uses 25% of coal, 26% of oil, and 27% of all natural gas in the world. Humans use a great deal of the world’s natural

effect of this all around us. In our quest to build bigger and better, we ignore the effect our

Most people in America all use at least seven trees each year, through wood, paper and other types of products that use trees. That is over 2 trillion trees throughout the course of the year. Moreover, 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year. Nowadays, human has overuse and waste so much natural resources. Consequently, I want to be green, and more friendly to the environment, there are several ways I already did in my life, recycle, and what I can done in different ways. ​

James Madison best describes human nature in the Federalist No. 10 by understanding that people serve in their best interest, and in doing so infringe upon the rights of others. This leads us to the question of whether citizens are exclusively morally entitled to a share of natural resources. Personally, I believe citizens are not ‘exclusively’ entitled to natural resource shares. This is due to several factors in play i.e. citizens being immoral, contradicting human rights, and citizen’s lack of outcome responsibility in the end. Nevertheless, we will address the United Nations’ principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources, and discuss how the theory can be detrimental to states’ sovereignty in the end. First and foremost, one must better understand the influence that natural resources have on humans in specific.

People become selfish by doing whatever they want. Many human only care for themselves, and do not care about other thing such as nature and natural resource. Human history shows that we waste many natural resources and have polluted many resources such as air and water. Some people don’t recycle stuff that can be reused such as paper. To make paper, we cut down lots of tree and forest which is a natural resources. Natural resources should be protected by all humanity. There is lot of reason why every human should protect natural resources. We use natural resources every day to survive. Natural resources don’t pollute and waste the environment like human do. Once natural resources are gone we can’t use them again.